[OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

[Ira Cooper]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> On 6/10/2013 1:48 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
>
>  answering my own question ...
>>
>> the problem seems to be this
>>
>>    https://www.illumos.org/**issues/3691<https://www.illumos.org/issues/3691>
>>
>
> I hadn't had a chance to reply to your original message yet, but I had
> this exact problem under S10U10 – as the ticket says, they switched to a
> binary search for finding groups, but neglected to sort the groups 8-/.
>
> Unfortunately I guess Oracle took their toys home before their fix for
> that found its way into OpenSolaris :(.
>
> I'll take a look at it, but my previous OI-based illumos dev environment
> disappeared on me when we had a SAN failure at work, so I don't currently
> have one. I really don't want to have to build another OI box, ideally I'd
> like to start doing upstream illumos dev work under omnios. There's been
> some talk of supporting that, but there's some base level of work that
> needs to be done first...
>
> I'll check on the illumos dev list, that's a pretty nasty bug, maybe
> somebody's already got a fix for it but hasn't pushed it back yet.


If it is the "sort" and you're getting the data from setgroups.  I wrote a
patch for that today, it came up on the samba-technical list.

If it is NFS not doing things right, or other things... that's a whole
'nother ball of wax.  What application is triggering this?

Thanks,

-Ira
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