Re: SEC:ULarger NGROUPS_MAX in CURRENT ? Ready for 7.0-R ?

From: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_fer.hr>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:06:40 +0200
Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
>> Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>>> Anyone ? rwatson_at_ ?
>>
>> AFAIK the only problem with this is that NFS will fail with larger
>> number of groups, so (for those not using NFS) why not make the number
>> of groups an item in kernel configurations and make a compile-time and
>> module-load-time checks for this in the NFS code?
> 
> Sure, we look forward to reviewing your patches.

So all this time it was just a matter of someone doing it? No other
architectural problems?


Received on Wed Aug 15 2007 - 16:07:01 UTC

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