Re: sysconf (was Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs)

From: Hildo Biersma (hpp@elvenkind.com)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 14:14:40 EST


Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> > There is only a stupid push to try to be more generic than anybody
> > actually needs! It makes glibc slower and bigger than it needs to
> > be, and
> > quite frankly I don't see the point of having a system call that
> > returns
> > the value "32".
>
> It will not return 32 in all cases, that's the whole point. I will
> save this mail and send it to all the people who complain about this.
> There are lots of people who need larger numbers of groups. If you
> don't need such a large number doesnot mean nobody needs it.

And your point is? People who have compiled a custom kernel with
maxgroups > 32 will not be able to edit a config file in the scheme
that Linus proposed?

Hildo

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