Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:22:49 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: "Zane C.B." <vvelox@vvelox.net> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/139160: update port: devel/dbus This fixes dbus on systems using nss_ldap for users that are members of more than 16 groups. Message-ID: <1254684169.53312.99.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20091004135138.1a8cee6a@vixen42.vulpes> References: <200910041804.n94I4K28076976@freefall.freebsd.org> <20091004135138.1a8cee6a@vixen42.vulpes>
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--=-lk0bokrwNmCqXXpGJAS1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 13:51 -0500, Zane C.B. wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:04:20 GMT > marcus@FreeBSD.org wrote: >=20 > > Synopsis: update port: devel/dbus This fixes dbus on systems > > using nss_ldap for users that are members of more than 16 groups. > >=20 > > State-Changed-From-To: open->patched > > State-Changed-By: marcus > > State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 4 18:03:00 UTC 2009 > > State-Changed-Why:=20 > > We are currently testing dbus 1.2.16 with GNOME 2.28, and this > > version has a hack which should fix this problem on BSD. > > Therefore, it is believed this bug will be fixed when GNOME 2.28 is > > merged into the ports tree. Once that happens, this PR will be > > closed. If, however, the problem is not resolved, a new PR can be > > opened against 1.2.16. > >=20 > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D139160 >=20 > Got any information about this? Last I heard there was no intention > of patching this or the like upstream. Previously I had submitted a > patch for DBus that makes enabling usage of a configure tunable to > disable/enable usage of <sys/syslimits.h> and NGROUP_MAX and the > patch had been flat out reject on ideological grounds. You can look in Freedesktop git to see what they did. Essentially, they blindly scale the list of groups by a factor of 16 (so 17 * 16) hoping the group list will fit. No, that doesn't come close to the 1023 allowed by NGROUPS_MAX, but it does give more space above 17. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-lk0bokrwNmCqXXpGJAS1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkrI9ggACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dE4wCfcDUlhMWfIMPcq3W78ax7wlrk VVEAnRQv870jr3ike3rTjSW7HoZmq0em =A9dX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lk0bokrwNmCqXXpGJAS1--
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