Re: CFT: final patches for NGROUPS16

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

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 there

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 that,

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 set

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. [ ... ] What

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