On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:53:00AM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery  KF8NH wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:10, Brian Szymanski wrote:
> > I'm having some trouble setting the (read-only) sysctl value kern.ngroups.
> 
> Raising the maximum number of groups requires changes all over the
> place; even if you find them all and rebuild the world (yes, libc
> depends on it as well) you'll find that any program that looks at the
> group vector will blow up because it only has space reserved for 16
> groups.  You don't want to go there.

Aren't these programs broken by not using NGROUPS_MAX from syslimits.h?

Peace,
Brian

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