Commit d2d3dd5e authored by Fox Chen's avatar Fox Chen Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description

Add macro name MAXSYMLINKS to the symlink limit description, so
that it is consistent with path name length description above.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527091618.287093-7-foxhlchen@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 34ef75ef
......@@ -992,8 +992,8 @@ is 4096. There are a number of reasons for this limit; not letting the
kernel spend too much time on just one path is one of them. With
symbolic links you can effectively generate much longer paths so some
sort of limit is needed for the same reason. Linux imposes a limit of
at most 40 symlinks in any one path lookup. It previously imposed a
further limit of eight on the maximum depth of recursion, but that was
at most 40 (MAXSYMLINKS) symlinks in any one path lookup. It previously imposed
a further limit of eight on the maximum depth of recursion, but that was
raised to 40 when a separate stack was implemented, so there is now
just the one limit.
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