commit b04087adc37cf9dfde0943731ec2d6294a036b3b
author mrbean-bremen <andreas.bohne@mevis.de> Sun Jun 25 12:19:34 2017 +0200
committer mrbean-bremen <andreas.bohne@mevis.de> Sun Jun 25 12:19:34 2017 +0200
tree 062b9bd0d2e24dbd989a717ed76eec088319ea66
parent 5c97aec5116c3ee98149174aa3b88331ec591cb5

Adapted the maximum symlink depth to match most systems

- see #225

pyfakefs/fake_filesystem.py

diff --git a/pyfakefs/fake_filesystem.py b/pyfakefs/fake_filesystem.py
index 1505a7e..c64b1d1 100644
--- a/pyfakefs/fake_filesystem.py
+++ b/pyfakefs/fake_filesystem.py
@@ -136,7 +136,13 @@
     _OPEN_MODE_MAP['x'] = (False, False, True, False, False, True)
     _OPEN_MODE_MAP['x+'] = (False, True, True, False, False, True)
 
-_MAX_LINK_DEPTH = 20
+if sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
+    # on newer Linux system, the default maximum recursion depth is 40
+    # we ignore older systems here
+    _MAX_LINK_DEPTH = 40
+else:
+    # on MacOS and Windows, the maximum recursion depth is 32
+    _MAX_LINK_DEPTH = 32
 
 FAKE_PATH_MODULE_DEPRECATION = ('Do not instantiate a FakePathModule directly; '
                                 'let FakeOsModule instantiate it.  See the '