[12319] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.7E: groups problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 2 17:14:24 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 17:13:57 +0500
To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU, probe@MIT.EDU
> Console displayed a message about my being in too many groups.
> It didn't do this with 7.7C and it doesn't do this with 7.6G .
The maximum number of groups has been lowered on the DECstation from,
I think, 29 to 13. Apparently a number larger than 13 causes failures
when attempting to do NFS attaches of RS/6000 filesystems. (You can
attach, but you can't access any files. This change to was made after
7.7C.)
> What should have happened:
> I guess the error message should not have appeared.
Well, it _should_ have, since you're in more than 13 groups. On the
other hand, at this point, the warning may be pretty pointless, so
perhaps it shouldn't be there. Does anyone have any comments on
whether this warning should stay around?
Craig
