Re: [PATCH][API-CONFORMAANCE] Increase SYMLOOP_MAX to 63

2025-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
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

[PATCH][API-CONFORMAANCE] Increase SYMLOOP_MAX to 63

2025-06-17 Thread Sebastian Feld via Cygwin
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. But with a value of 10 it is a real world problem, because production sc