[SunHELP] Links

[Nicholas Dronen]

It means (obviously?) that perl is a symbolic link
to a symbolic link, which is a symbolic link to
another symbolic link, and so on.  In order for
this not to proceed ad infinitum, the kernel
keeps track of the number of links it looks
up when trying to resolve a file or directory
to an inode.

Another possibility is that your process arrived
to the parent directory of the perl directory 
by way of a symbolic link; that is, the total
number of symbolic links traversed from the
root directory of the root filesystem exceeds
MAXSYMLINKS.

Either way, you have too many links.

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:04:17PM -0500, Vivas Inga, Yovana Mery wrote:
> Hi, when I whant to get into a directory, I get the following message :
> 
> 5host2# cd perl
> perl: Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal
> exceeds MAXSYMLINKS
> 6host2# 
> 
> can anybody tell me please what does it mean? and what can I do to fix it
> up?
> 
> thanks a lot for your help.
> Mery
> 
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