On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:51:06AM -0700, rsync.net wrote: > > It has been impossible to change kern.ngroups - at least for several years > now. It was not fixed in either 5.x or 6.x : > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-January/022140.html > > It is seemingly a difficult problem: > > http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg09969.html [1] > > However it should be solved - we can't be the only ones out there trying > to add a UID to more than 16 groups... > > > ----- > > > The rsync.net code bounties have been fairly successful this year - two of > the five projects have been completed, and the large "vmware 6 on FreeBSD" > project is now underway. > > We'd like to add a new bounty for this kern.ngroups issue. We are posting > to -hackers today to get some feedback on how long this will take and how > much money might reasonably be expected to lure this work. > > > --rsync.net Support > > > > [1] Is it indeed true that these programs are broken by not following > NGROUPS_MAX from syslimits.h?
I don't see how they can be broken. They may not see more than 16
groups, but they shouldn't blow up. The only possibility of bad usage I
see is something like this:
gid_t gids[NGROUPS_MAX];
int gidsetlen;
gidsetlen = getgroups(0, NULL);
getgroups(gidsetlen, gids);
But I guess the most common use is:
gid_t gids[NGROUPS_MAX];
int gidsetlen;
gidsetlen = getgroups(NGROUPS_MAX, gids);
Binaries using the latter method should be just fine.
BTW. The latter method is what all utilities from the base system use.
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