On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:10:44AM -0000, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher at active-4.com> wrote: > would have to check the POSIX spec for a > reasonable value POSIX allows 8 links: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~eweiss/222_book/222_book/0201433079/ch02lev1sec5.html _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX - number of symbolic links that can be traversed during pathname resolution: 8 The constant _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX from unistd.h: #define _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX 8 Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd at phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.