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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: thockin@sun.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: report NGROUPS_MAX via a sysctl (read-only)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:30:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219213028.42835364.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040220023927.GN9155@sun.com>

Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com> wrote:
>
>  Attached is a simple patch to expose NGROUPS_MAX via sysctl.

Why does userspace actually care?  You try to do an oversized setgroups(),
so you get an error?

And why does NGROUPS_MAX still exist, come to that?  AFAICT the only thing
it does is to prevent users from being able to allocate too much kernel
memory??


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-20  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-20  2:39 Tim Hockin
2004-02-20  5:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-20  6:35   ` Tim Hockin
2004-02-20  6:47     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-20  7:10       ` Tim Hockin
2004-02-25  0:59         ` Glen Turner
2004-02-25  1:14           ` Tim Hockin
2004-02-25  7:32             ` Ulrich Drepper

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