(sorry if this dups, screwup in my aliases file)

Linus,

Attached is a patch to remove the NGROUPS limit (again).  This patch is
against linux-2.6.2rc2.  If it is OK, I can make it bitkeeper accessible.

This does not use vmalloc, but instead uses an array of pages.  It also will
require a glibc patch which I will pop off as soon as I get the OK on this
(I've been reworking this every few months for about 2 years now).

It does duplicate some code in the compat code for some architectures.  I'll
follow this up with a cleanup patch for that, I promise.

This patch changes the security interface for task_setgroups().

This throughly breaks intermezzo, though I don't know if anyone will notice.


What think?  Can we get rid of this limit at long last? :)

Tim

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:10:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm definitely happier about this one._
>_
> Not that I'm any more thrilled about users using thousands of groups. But_
> this looks a bit saner.

-- 
Tim Hockin
Sun Microsystems, Linux Software Engineering
thockin@sun.com
All opinions are my own, not Sun's