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Supporting deeper symbolic links

Supporting deeper symbolic links

Posted Jul 1, 2004 6:02 UTC (Thu) by michaelk (subscriber, #1978)
Parent article: Supporting deeper symbolic links

One reason that a limit of 8 is desirable is that this is the minimum that POSIX/SUSv3 requires: _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX is 8.

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