Dynamicising Solaris Groups (was Dynamic groups)

[David Collier-Brown]

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> No - why can't initgroups()/setgroups()/getgroups() just
> be made dynamic ? There is no binary compatibility issue
> as setgroups/getgroups take a size parameter, 

  It can, but, the kernel was from back before Posix decided 
that "Application writers should note that {NGROUPS_MAX} is 
not necessarily a constant on all implementations."

  I'm thinking of writing an interposer...

--dave
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