/etc/group limits (REAL limits)

[Eric Anderson]

On 02/07/07 07:44, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:17:51PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, 22:56-0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> On one of my boxes where I have a decent amount of (less than 50)
>>> users in a few groups, I finally hit the limit.  Not 1024 bytes
>>> though (that I know of). When that happens though, it is sooner than
>>> expected, and tools (like 'id') seg fault (and core dump).
>>>
>>> I have a sample group, and it appears to be hitting the byte limit.
>>> If I add a single additional character to the group, it will break
>>> things.
>>>     It appears to be a combination of multiple groups.
>>>
>>> Can someone with some experience in this area comment?  I can send
>>> the group file itself if needed.
>>>
>>> This box is 6.2-PRERELEASE from about mid-September.  I have also
>>> seen some issues on amd64, which I went through some debugging with
>>> Konstantin Belousov back in November (cc'ed).
>> Make sure you have rev. 1.32.8.3 of lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c.
> 
> It was very strange thing with buggy code generated by compiler. I tracked it
> down to exact assembler instruction missed in Mr. Anderson' instance of
> libc.so. After that, conversation stopped.


Sorry about that Kostik, the last message was for me to try a newer 
libc.so.6.  If I recall, I tried that too.  I'm not sure what else you 
wanted me to try.  If you have more ideas, I'm all ears.


Eric