From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 07:00:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CFE16A41F for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 07:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C266343D45 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 07:00:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.180]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IZP009NBI490N20@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 01:00:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IZP009TEI49FUH0@pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 01:00:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0IZP009BRI48MKD0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 01:00:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 22936 invoked from network); Tue, 23 May 2006 07:00:08 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Tue, 23 May 2006 07:00:08 +0000 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:07 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <4472B1E3.2060903@greenmeadow.ca> To: Duane Whitty Message-id: <4472B2F7.7030706@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <4472B1E3.2060903@greenmeadow.ca> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.ngroups == num. process groups ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 07:00:10 -0000 Duane Whitty wrote: > I saw a reference to kern.ngroups on this list and didn't know what it > meant. > > I decided to peek at the source and it seems to me that it is the > number of process groups. Is that correct? No, kern.ngroups is the maximum number of groups to which a user can belong at the same time. Colin Percival