Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:51 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "rsync.net" <info@rsync.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.ngroups (non) setting ... new bounty ? Message-ID: <46FAA37B.3020903@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20070925093722.N21960@mail.rsync.net> References: <20070925093722.N21960@mail.rsync.net>
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rsync.net wrote: > It has been impossible to change kern.ngroups - at least for several years > now. It was not fixed in either 5.x or 6.x : > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-January/022140.html > > It is seemingly a difficult problem: > > http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg09969.html [1] > > However it should be solved - we can't be the only ones out there trying > to add a UID to more than 16 groups... the big question is what do you do for NFS? remember something about it only having a fixed storage for groups. > > > ----- > > > The rsync.net code bounties have been fairly successful this year - two of > the five projects have been completed, and the large "vmware 6 on FreeBSD" > project is now underway. > > We'd like to add a new bounty for this kern.ngroups issue. We are posting > to -hackers today to get some feedback on how long this will take and how > much money might reasonably be expected to lure this work. > > > --rsync.net Support > > > > [1] Is it indeed true that these programs are broken by not following > NGROUPS_MAX from syslimits.h? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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