Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: more reliable directory traversal when creating archives

[Joerg Schilling]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 09/07/2010 02:37 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > on NetBSD 5.0.2 it's just 128.  While most
> > distribution tarballs fit easily within such a limitation, when you
> > use tar to perform backups, you might find such a low number to be a
> > serious limitation.  Even 1024 seems far too low for a tool like tar.
>
> Yeowch.  What are those NetBSD guys _thinking_ (:-)?  Anyway, I will try to

Historic UNIX has a limit of 20 open files.

SunOS-4.0 had a default limit of 64.

Then there was a long time with a limit of 256 because the fd in stdio was a 
char. 

In any case, typical filesystem have no limitation on directory nesting but 
there is still a limit for open fd's.



Jörg

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