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

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 02:11:15 EST

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:29:22AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

> > Suggestion for glibc NGROUPS_MAX problem: in the typical way of
> > hacking around lack of kernel support, have glibc run a setuid-root
> > executable that reads kernel memory. Use the System.map file to
>
> Do that and I'll find time to port *BSD libc to Linux.

You would lose a lot along the way, like most threadsafe functions :-) 

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