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Subject: RE: LINK_TIMEOUT - what is it?
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 14:06:33 EST
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	Subject: LINK_TIMEOUT - what is it?
	
	From: dubois@uwvax.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
	Date: 18 Nov 87 20:10:02 GMT
	Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
	 
	The skeleton .login (/usr/skel/.login) on our system (running
	Ultrix 1.2) has a line in it that says:

		setenv  LINK_TIMEOUT    3

	What does this refer to?  The number of symbolic links the
	system will attempt to cross before getting a "Too many levels
	of symbolic links" error?
	 
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	Paul DuBois     UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!rhesus!dubois    |
	                ARPA: dubois@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu              --+--

LINK_TIMEOUT is for a program I wrote which I don't think is shipped
in the product any more.

	aps.