Re: CFT: final patches for NGROUPS>>16

2009-06-18 Thread ttw+bsd
posted patches to this effect some months ago. they needed some clean-up and validation but the also mapped correctly into an RPC_NGROUPS_MAX and IPC_NGROUPS_MAX for consistent (and possibly dynamic) mapping to those problem areas. they build and run but are untested beyond that. i do not expect

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

2009-03-26 Thread ttw+bsd
On 25.03-05:31, David Schultz wrote: [ ... ] > A person's Copyright doesn't go away just because they die, > disappear, or fail to respond. If you can't contact them, their > heirs, or whomever they transferred the Copyright to, you're stuck. yeah but it's a little like finding something. if ther

Re: Doing away with NGROUPS_MAX in src/sys/sys/syslimits.h?

2009-03-23 Thread ttw+bsd
On 22.03-22:33, Boris Kochergin wrote: > Ahoy. I got bitten by this today--a system I administer for someone had > users in more than 16 groups, so I had to bump the value, recompile the > kernel, and reboot. It seems desirable to (at the very least) make this > a read-only tunable that can be s

Re: Doing away with NGROUPS_MAX in src/sys/sys/syslimits.h?

2009-03-23 Thread ttw+bsd
On 23.03-00:39, David Schultz wrote: [ ... ] > There's already a kern.ngroups sysctl, but there are many places > where `ngroups' needs to be used in preference to NGROUPS in the > kernel. In userland, sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) needs to be used in > preference to NGROUPS_MAX. you will also note tha

Re: removal of NGROUPS_MAX dependancy from base

2009-02-22 Thread ttw+bsd
On 21.02-22:49, Julian Elischer wrote: [ ... ] > >this patch should remove the dependancy on the definition of > >NGROUPS_MAX as a static constant and implement it as a writable > >sysconf variable of the same. it should also make the necessary > >changes to the codebase to support those. [ ... ]

removal of NGROUPS_MAX dependancy from base

2009-02-13 Thread ttw+bsd
attached is the first in a series of patches that is intended to remove the current limitation on group membership. this patch should remove the dependancy on the definition of NGROUPS_MAX as a static constant and implement it as a writable sysconf variable of the same. it should also make the ne