Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:30:28 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: report NGROUPS_MAX via a sysctl (read-only) |
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Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com> wrote: > > Attached is a simple patch to expose NGROUPS_MAX via sysctl.
Why does userspace actually care? You try to do an oversized setgroups(), so you get an error?
And why does NGROUPS_MAX still exist, come to that? AFAICT the only thing it does is to prevent users from being able to allocate too much kernel memory??
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