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Author Alexander.Belopolsky
Recipients Alexander.Belopolsky, l0nwlf, loewis, michael.foord, orsenthil, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren
Date 2010-02-23.15:33:18
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E-mail to tracker handling still seems to remove '>' quoted lines.   I am reposting a couple of comments that got clobbered:

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> * allocate an array of groupcount gid_t's and call getgroups(groupcount)
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This is more or less what my original patch did, but it suffers from a
race condition.

> I'll work on a patch that implements this.
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I am attaching a patch that I wrote yesterday, but did not submit
because it does not fix setgroups.  I am attaching it now so that we
can compare our approaches.

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> Wrt. the value of MAX_GROUPS on Linux: we could change the test that defined > MAX_GROUPS to ensure that the value doesn't get too large, from:
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> #ifdef NGROUPS_MAX
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> to:
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> #if defined(NGROUPS_MAX) && NGROUPS_MAX <= 64
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> This combined with my patch would result in less stack usage while still working > when a user has a lot of secondary groups.
>
Makes sense regardless of the approach.
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2010-02-23 15:33:25Alexander.Belopolskysetrecipients: + Alexander.Belopolsky, loewis, ronaldoussoren, orsenthil, r.david.murray, michael.foord, l0nwlf
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