Re: Cannot compile without sysctl (+semi-patch)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:06:35PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Jan,

> in trying to make the smallest possible kernel for an old pc's needs (read: 
> 386sx) disabling sysctl support (CONFIG_SYSCTL) does not work, sys_setgroups 
> and sys_setgroups16 still require it. (I get a linking error.)
> It's not a blocker, but it would be nice if this got wrapped up in #ifdef or 
> something :-) so that either sysctl is always on or sys_setgroups behaves a 
> little different.
> 
> Preferably:
> include/linux/limits.h:
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> extern int ngroups_max;
> # define NGROUPS_MAX ngroups_max
> #else
> # define NGROUPS_MAX __NGROUPS_MAX
> #endif
> 
> to
>...

you should also tell us which kernel version you observed this problem 
in - neither the latest 2.4 nor the latest 2.6 kernels have a limits.h 
like the one you describe...

> Jan Engelhardt

cu
Adrian

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