On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:17:51PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, 22:56-0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > On one of my boxes where I have a decent amount of (less than 50) > > users in a few groups, I finally hit the limit. Not 1024 bytes > > though (that I know of). When that happens though, it is sooner than > > expected, and tools (like 'id') seg fault (and core dump). > > > > I have a sample group, and it appears to be hitting the byte limit. > > If I add a single additional character to the group, it will break > > things. > > It appears to be a combination of multiple groups. > > > > Can someone with some experience in this area comment? I can send > > the group file itself if needed. > > > > This box is 6.2-PRERELEASE from about mid-September. I have also > > seen some issues on amd64, which I went through some debugging with > > Konstantin Belousov back in November (cc'ed). > > Make sure you have rev. 1.32.8.3 of lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c.
It was very strange thing with buggy code generated by compiler. I tracked it down to exact assembler instruction missed in Mr. Anderson' instance of libc.so. After that, conversation stopped.
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