[1928] in Athena Bugs
MAXSYMLINKS not used in our kernals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Mar 18 21:32:22 1989
From: <epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 21:32:09 EST
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
MAXSYMLINKS (h/param.h) is not used in our kernal sources. The maximum
number of sym links is 20 which is hard coded (sys/vfs_lookup.c).
The tahoe kernal sources use MAXSYMLINKS (currently set to 8). This
number will probably have to be raised back to 20.
The reason for this concern is what will happen with vice. Unless I miss
my guess, /usr/athena/emacs is the longest path length. (I believe 15
symlinks when using vice).
Ezra
