Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:26:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:26:17 -0400 Received: from patan.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.43]:23727 "EHLO patan.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:26:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3B5379A9.6A9B11BE@sun.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:32:57 -0700 From: Tim Hockin Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: NGROUP increase - thoughts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm sure this has been given thought, so I want to probe teh collective resources. We need to have users in more than 32 groups. In fact, they may need to be a member of MANY more groups than that. What is the current thinking on this problem? Would it be desirable to replace current->groups[NGROUPS] with a poibnter to an array? Thus allowing (with libc changes) many more groups? Comments, please. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances thockin@sun.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/