How much should we work around buggy Solaris/OpenIndiana/Illumos > 16 groups bugs?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 01:49:23PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I've uploaded to https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7588 the
> attached two patches that will help some sites that can't fix their OS,
> but need more than 16 groups. 
> 
> Given that a number of sites seem to deploy this, and there has been no
> reaction on the Illumos side indicating a desire to fix this, should we
> just do the qsort() unconditionally on Solaris-based OS's, for the sake
> of our users?

Yes !

> I don't propose to detect buggy versions, if we did this I figured to
> make it happen on all Solaris builds.
> 
> Any thoughts?

LGTM.

Jeremy.