Dynamic groups (was Samba and groups > 16)

[David Collier-Brown]

Aha, thanks!  Evidence someone other than Linux has
solved this problem... if necessary, by ignoring
Posix.

--dave

William Jojo wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> 
>>Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>>
>>>Why can't we get Sun to fix their broken OS ?
>>
>>
>>  Sun, HP/UX, SGI Irix, AIX, BSD, etc, etc, all have this (really
>>rather old!) restriction.
>>  If my memory serves, the upper limit in POSIX is 32, which
>>is supported by at least SUN and AIX.  Personally I prefer
>>0, 1 or many for any limits (:-))
>>
> 
> 
> For information only (not expert opinion):
> 
> AIX 5.2:
> 
> #ifdef _POSIX_SOURCE
> 	#define _POSIX_NGROUPS_MAX              8
> ...
> 
> (always defined)
> 
> #define NGROUPS_MAX     64
> 
> -----
> 
> AIX 5.3:
> 
> #ifdef _POSIX_SOURCE
>         #define _POSIX_NGROUPS_MAX              8
> ...
> 
> #define NGROUPS_MAX     128
> 
> 
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
>>--dave
>>--
>>David Collier-Brown,      | Always do right. This will gratify
>>Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest
>>davecb at canada.sun.com     |                      -- Mark Twain
>>
> 
> 

-- 
David Collier-Brown,      | Always do right. This will gratify
Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest
davecb at canada.sun.com     |                      -- Mark Twain