On Jun 20 13:24, Sebastian Feld wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM Corinna Vinschen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > On Jun 17 09:48, Sebastian Feld wrote: > > > The following patch increases from 10 to 63, per Windows spec > > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/reparse-points > > > > > > Security impact is minor, SYMLOOP_MAX is just an artificial limiter to > > > prevent endless loops. > > > > In case of Cygwin (Cygwin is slow, we all know that), the rather low > > SYMLOOP_MAX was chosen so the path handling didn't get even slower in > > some circumstances I don't remember anymore. Maybe the times when this > > was relevant are over, so we can try this. > > 1. Cygwin is NOT slow. Who says that?
It's an old meme. > 2. If there is a performance impact, then this should be documented in > the source code. > > > However, please send a real git patch created with `git format-patch' > > and don't forget your Signed-off-by:". > > Patch attached. Pushed. > Are there CI or regression test scripts where I could add a test module? You can add something to winsup/testsuite I guess. Thanks, Corinna
