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From: sjr@mimsy.UUCP (Stephen J. Roznowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: NGROUP limit set at 8
Message-ID: <9096@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 16:34:48 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 16:34:48 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 02:45:10 EST
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: NGROUP

I've run across a problem with trying to be in more than 8 groups
at once.  The problem is that it seems that I need to rebuild the
whole system to enlarge NGROUP (located in /usr/include/sys/param.h),
because the C library uses param.h.

Is there an easier solution? (Other than rebuilding the system)

Is there a reason why the number of groups is limited to 8? (other
that the fact that most people are in less that 8 groups...)

A related question, how would you make this change on a binary only
distribution?

[If it matters, I'm using 4.[23]BSD and SunOS3.4]

Thanks,
Stephen Roznowski (sjr@mimsy.umd.edu)
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Stephen J. Roznowski                 sjr@mimsy.umd.edu