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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Q: Finding "real" name of linked file
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.074001.10340@kithrup.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 90 07:40:01 GMT
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Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <115084@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>As an added feature, symlinks can point to [...]
>another symbolic link (up to a total of eight)

I know of at least one implementation where the link is 32, not 8.
Not all systems with symbolic links have Berkeley's limitations...

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