On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, David Thompson wrote:
"C. Alex. North-Keys" wrote:
Is there anyone working on a PAG system that doesn't squat in the group
ID space? Several sites (ours included) have seen failures relating to
the use of group permissions when numeric groups in the auxilliary group
ID list cannot be mapped back to group names, even on files outside of
the AFS space.
Yes, and under linux 2.6 there are also failures in simply _using_ group
permissions on uid/gid based file systems, because the PAG breaks the linux 2.6
assumption that the group list is sorted.
Wow, I wasn't aware of that. That's not good.
(groups_bsearch())
Sadly I can't volunteer to fix it.
-Chris
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