kern.ngroups (non) setting ... new bounty ?

[Julian Elischer]

rsync.net wrote:
> It has been impossible to change kern.ngroups - at least for several years
> now.  It was not fixed in either 5.x or 6.x :
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-January/022140.html
> 
> It is seemingly a difficult problem:
> 
> http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg09969.html   [1]
> 
> However it should be solved - we can't be the only ones out there trying
> to add a UID to more than 16 groups...

the big question is what do you do for NFS?  remember something about
it only having a fixed storage for groups.


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> The rsync.net code bounties have been fairly successful this year - two of
> the five projects have been completed, and the large "vmware 6 on FreeBSD"
> project is now underway.
> 
> We'd like to add a new bounty for this kern.ngroups issue.  We are posting
> to -hackers today to get some feedback on how long this will take and how
> much money might reasonably be expected to lure this work.
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> --rsync.net Support
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> 
> [1]  Is it indeed true that these programs are broken by not following
>      NGROUPS_MAX from syslimits.h?
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