Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:59:36 +0200 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.* kernels w/ glibc-2.1.* allowing ngroups_max to be > 128? |
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:31:35PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:38:55AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > The problem is compatability. It is not possible to change the limit if NFS > > is being used. 256 groups would just about use up half the UDP packet just > > for the group list. > > that's bogus; RPC/XDR allows for counted arrays. Colour sun stupid for > limiting it to 16. I've several patches to bypass this limitation and use an arbitrary number of groups on NFS, without breaking any standard protocol. See http://www.inter.nl.net/users/fvm for the latest.
-- Frank
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