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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Denial of resource attacks
To: jbeukema@hk.super.net (John Beukema)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 22:39:43 -0800 (PST)
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> 
> 3. Might it be a good idea to limit the creation of sub-directories 
> when the max path length will be exceeded, so that rm -r will 
> continue to work?     
you can't...
consider..
mkdir A
mkdir A/B
mkdir A/B/C
mkdir D
mkdir D/E
mkdir D/E/F
mv D A/B/C

I have made a 6 level tree but I never did a mkdir of > 3

julian
> 
> jbeukema
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