Re: is there a fix for "Too many levels of symbolic links"

2003-10-02 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > It used to be claimed that since the name resolution was done with a recursive > algorithm, there was concern about using more kernel stack space. But > I believe the recursive algorithm has been removed. Just the prohibition > for a nesting level greater than 5 remains. this is not corre

Re: is there a fix for "Too many levels of symbolic links"

2003-10-01 Thread steved
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: > >cat: mytestfile: Too many levels of symbolic links It's been my observation that this won't be fixed. I've run into the same problem, not to mention I believe Oracle did too. If you look in /usr/include/sys/param.h you'll find the following: #define

Re: is there a fix for "Too many levels of symbolic links"

2003-10-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17:47 29 Sep 2003, John Eismeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | we commonly use use many symbolic links in Solaris. In RH 7.1, 8.0 and | 9.0 we see a limit to the depth of links. Oh, there's a limit on Solaris too. It's just bigger. | Can someone suggest how to | work around this limit to help

is there a fix for "Too many levels of symbolic links"

2003-09-29 Thread John Eismeier
Hi All, we commonly use use many symbolic links in Solaris. In RH 7.1, 8.0 and 9.0 we see a limit to the depth of links. Can someone suggest how to work around this limit to help with our port from Solaris? Attached is a tar file with links and directories that demonstrates what we ran into.