/* Threshold at which to diagnose ELOOP. Generic version. Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #ifndef _ELOOP_THRESHOLD_H #define _ELOOP_THRESHOLD_H 1 #include #include /* POSIX specifies SYMLOOP_MAX as the "Maximum number of symbolic links that can be reliably traversed in the resolution of a pathname in the absence of a loop." This makes it a minimum that we should certainly accept. But it leaves open the possibility that more might sometimes work--just not "reliably". For example, Linux implements a complex policy whereby there is a small limit on the number of direct symlink traversals (a symlink to a symlink to a symlink), but larger limit on the total number of symlink traversals overall. Hence the SYMLOOP_MAX number should be the small one, but the limit library functions enforce on users should be the larger one. So, we use the larger of the reported SYMLOOP_MAX (if any) and our own constant MIN_ELOOP_THRESHOLD, below. This constant should be large enough that it never rules out a file name and directory tree that the underlying system (i.e. calls to 'open' et al) would resolve successfully. It should be small enough that actual loops are detected without a huge number of iterations. */ #ifndef MIN_ELOOP_THRESHOLD # define MIN_ELOOP_THRESHOLD 40 #endif /* Return the maximum number of symlink traversals to permit before diagnosing ELOOP. */ static inline unsigned int __attribute__ ((const)) __eloop_threshold (void) { #ifdef SYMLOOP_MAX const int symloop_max = SYMLOOP_MAX; #else /* The function is marked 'const' even though we use memory and call a function, because sysconf is required to return the same value in every call and so it must always be safe to call __eloop_threshold exactly once and reuse the value. */ static long int sysconf_symloop_max; if (sysconf_symloop_max == 0) sysconf_symloop_max = __sysconf (_SC_SYMLOOP_MAX); const unsigned int symloop_max = (sysconf_symloop_max <= 0 ? _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX : sysconf_symloop_max); #endif return MAX (symloop_max, MIN_ELOOP_THRESHOLD); } #endif /* eloop-threshold.h */