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From: ekrell@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Eduardo Krell[arm])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
Message-ID: <2902@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 13:51:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: ulysses.2902
Posted: Mon Aug 31 13:51:17 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 06:22:47 EDT
References: <8731@brl-adm.ARPA> <2789@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1781@munnari.oz> <484@mtxinu.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <484@mtxinu.UUCP>, ed@mtxinu.UUCP writes:

> You didn't read my program very carefully.  It didn't use any pathnames
> longer than about 7 characters, but changed into a directory whose full
> path name could have been many thousands of characters long.  The current
> restructions that I know about are for pathnames handed to a single
> system call.

The point is that the file you generate would be unusable anyway, in the sense
that any attempts to reference that file with an absolute pathname will
break because of the 8 symbolic links limit.
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    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

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