Q: Finding "real" name of linked file

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <115084 at uunet.UU.NET> rbj at 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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