From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 18 9:29: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D9337B401 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from wuhjuhbuh.afraid.org (syr-24-59-96-217.twcny.rr.com [24.59.96.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C23443F75 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ski@wuhjuhbuh.afraid.org) Received: by wuhjuhbuh.afraid.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3BDE162B6; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:28:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:28:57 -0500 From: Brian Szymanski To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Cc: christopher@indymedia.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting kern.ngroups Message-ID: <20030318172857.GA22835@localhost> References: <4394.192.168.1.5.1048003806.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.afraid.org> <1048006379.40809.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1048006379.40809.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:53:00AM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:10, Brian Szymanski wrote: > > I'm having some trouble setting the (read-only) sysctl value kern.ngroups. > > Raising the maximum number of groups requires changes all over the > place; even if you find them all and rebuild the world (yes, libc > depends on it as well) you'll find that any program that looks at the > group vector will blow up because it only has space reserved for 16 > groups. You don't want to go there. Aren't these programs broken by not using NGROUPS_MAX from syslimits.h? Peace, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message