[1100] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Greg abuses the file hierarchy a bit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Nov 2 07:38:47 1995
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 2 Nov 1995 02:51:36 -0500 ."
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 07:18:57 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
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> The tough issue is initgroups(). Getting the grouplist is easy, but
> libc has never been very clever about deciding when to stop
> accumulating groups. In the Athena environment, we want to leave two
> groups open for a PAG, but that kind of policy decision doesn't seem
> to belong in libc.
Perhaps the thing to do is what we did to HP-UX for DCE/DFS support:
convince the core team to add a separate pag field into the in-kernel
cred structure, and not have to bother with the @$%%^n
pag-in-grouplist encoding hack.
- Bill
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