Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > I think 20 is too low. I worked in an environment years ago we had a > real problem with the limit of 20, that required reengineering the way > the project was organized. There can be good reasons for using > symlinks, for example imagine many trees of sparsely populated > symlinks pointing at other such trees. > > I recommend at least bumping the limit to 32, which is XEmacs' > hardcoded limit. Nope. If 20 isn't enough you are in big trouble.

As I've said, 20 is not an arbitrary choice, it is what others do.