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From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Levels of soft links in BSD4.3
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Date: 6 Sep 90 03:58:02 GMT
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irick@ecn.purdue.edu (GarBear Irick) writes:

>Just curious....  Does anyone know how many levels of soft links I can use
>in 4.3BSD?  Something like

Well, it can be configured by whomever builds the kernel.  On the 4.2 BSD
system here, it's 20.  (in h/param.h, #define MAXSYMLINKS 20)

Your mileage may vary.

(Un?)fortunatly, the kernel code does not set this a variable that can be used.
They just check against the define.  (ie: if (++nlink > MAXSYMLINKS) { ... })

	-Jeff
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