Levels of soft links in BSD4.3

[Jeff Beadles]

irick at ecn.purdue.edu (GarBear Irick) writes:

>Just curious....  Does anyone know how many levels of soft links I can use
>in 4.3BSD?  Something like

Well, it can be configured by whomever builds the kernel.  On the 4.2 BSD
system here, it's 20.  (in h/param.h, #define MAXSYMLINKS 20)

Your mileage may vary.

(Un?)fortunatly, the kernel code does not set this a variable that can be used.
They just check against the define.  (ie: if (++nlink > MAXSYMLINKS) { ... })

	-Jeff
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