Re: 2.2.* kernels w/ glibc-2.1.* allowing ngroups_max to be > 128?

Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:56:58 -0400

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:46:23PM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> True about RPC/XDR, but NFS isn't XDR.

yes, it is. NFS is over RPC and RPC is XDR enhanced with procedure calls.
see the relevant RFCs whose numbers I have forgotten (1831,1832,1833 sound
plausible).

> It becomes improper WHEN it is decided that one user should be in 256 groups.
> I wasn't meaning improper as in "should never be done" but more that it is
> likely being used for something that it wasn't designed to do.

ok, i see what you meant.

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