On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:28:59PM -0500, Doug Leavitt wrote:
> No.  That would violate POSIX specifications for the getXbyY APIs,
> which we do not want to do.

I actually have a hard time believing that we couldn't have an option to
do what I proposed.  We have plenty of options that, when enabled,
result in standards violations, and that's OK provided that the option
defaults to off.

Nico


> 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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