Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:28:57 -0500 From: Brian Szymanski <bks10@cornell.edu> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: christopher@indymedia.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting kern.ngroups Message-ID: <20030318172857.GA22835@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1048006379.40809.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> References: <4394.192.168.1.5.1048003806.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.afraid.org> <1048006379.40809.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
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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
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