Hello

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the more i look into this the more i get puzzeld.


First of i have read this:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/79621

Which seems to me like a comprehensive summary of the whole complexity surouding
handling of symlinks.

Linux Kernel source says:
This limits recursive symlink follows to 8, while limiting consecutive symlinks
to 40.

% namei -l
says "exceeded limit of symlinks" after an arbitrary limit of 20.

% ls
starts to mark symlinks as broken after 42 linked symlinks (which i guess is
what meant as consecutive symlinks).

I guess with my arbitrary limit of 8 i am arbitrary in the middle of everyone
else.  ;)

This whole thing is quite more complex then i ever could imagine, before.
But then what i really like is, i have learned quite a bit through all that.

i stop for tonight.

I look more into this later this week.



kind regards,

     Thilo