Dynamic groups (was Samba and groups > 16)

[William Jojo]

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

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AIX 5.3:

#ifdef _POSIX_SOURCE
        #define _POSIX_NGROUPS_MAX              8
...

#define NGROUPS_MAX     128



Bill


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