Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:14:40 +0200 | | From | Hildo Biersma <> | | Subject | Re: sysconf (was Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs) |
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Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > > There is only a stupid push to try to be more generic than anybody > > actually needs! It makes glibc slower and bigger than it needs to > > be, and > > quite frankly I don't see the point of having a system call that > > returns > > the value "32". > > It will not return 32 in all cases, that's the whole point. I will > save this mail and send it to all the people who complain about this. > There are lots of people who need larger numbers of groups. If you > don't need such a large number doesnot mean nobody needs it.
And your point is? People who have compiled a custom kernel with maxgroups > 32 will not be able to edit a config file in the scheme that Linus proposed? Hildo
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