From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 18:22:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF87E16A421 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:22:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outK.internet-mail-service.net (outK.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C3413C468 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:22:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:51 -0700 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (nat.ironport.com [63.251.108.100]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2E512650B; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46FAA37B.3020903@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:51 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "rsync.net" References: <20070925093722.N21960@mail.rsync.net> In-Reply-To: <20070925093722.N21960@mail.rsync.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.ngroups (non) setting ... new bounty ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:22:53 -0000 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"