On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:23:11AM -0700, Casper Dik wrote:
> NGROUPS_MAX as defined by different Unix versions are as follows
> (http://www.j3e.de/ngroups.html):
>
>       Linux Kernel >= 2.6.3                           65536
>       Linux Kernel < 2.6.3                            32
>       Tru64 / OSF/1                                   32
>       IBM AIX 5.2                                     64
>       IBM AIX 5.3 ... 6.1                             128
>       OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin (Mac OS X)     16

This article is a bit outdated (and apache claims the document date is
13/Jul/09).
This is no longer true for FreeBSD 8+, as it was bumped there to 1023.

See early discussion and proposed change.
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-05/1086.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-June/028939.html

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wbr,
pluknet

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