linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] VFS

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:46:40 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] VFS - the first pile

On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Al Viro wrote:

> BTW, you want to update 005 in there - we are back to correct "maximum
> is 40 symlinks total, 8 levels on nesting" for all syscalls.  Add the
> 41st symlink to your chain in testcase ;-)

Unless there's a way to read out these limits, I'm not sure it's a good idea
to add a test like that to xfstests --- it's too fragile since at some point
we might change what those limits might be.

Also, xfstests is primarily intended to be a file system level stress tester
testing for correctness, and issues of whether we blow up on the 40th, 
41st, or 42nd symlink seems more like an ABI issue --- and even there I'm
not sure the ABI specification should be quite that detailed over what's
allowed and not allowed.

-- Ted

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