site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Hi Terry, On 07/06/2005, at 12:03 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: -- % Andre Pang : trust.in.love.to.save <http://www.algorithm.com.au/> _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Thanks heaps for your very long and detailed answer about the MAXSYMLINKS constant, and how to change it if we _really_ need to. I'm still in the process of talking the person who has the actual problem about whether we can somehow reduce the number of indirect symbolic links: they work at a digital media company and have a pretty staggering number of NFS-mounted drives, which is the reason for the large number of symlink indirections. Thanks also to Justin Walker, who seems to have his hand in everything Darwin :) If you have an already compiled program that depends on the value for MAXSYMLINKS, rather than using the sysconf() interface as it should, then that program is out of luck (sorry). Future programs that need this value should use sysconf() to obtain it instead, so that you can make the change you want to make here, and they will continue to function correctly. [..] This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com