No.  That would violate POSIX specifications for the getXbyY APIs,
which we do not want to do.

As I specified previously, we've investigated this, and the correct fix
is to allow the system to be configured in a manner that a change in
configuration can only take affect upon reboot.

The plan is to do this via smf/nscd, but has not been implemented.

DOug.

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:48:12PM -0500, Doug Leavitt wrote:
>> We currently set an upper bounds of 512k max for a buffer.
> 
> Perhaps we should truncate the group membership list rather than fail
> the whole operation.  Such a failure mode is much more graceful than the
> current one.
> 
> Would that be a simple fix?
> 
> Nico
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