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

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 23:29:22 EST


On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Albert D. Cahalan 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
> seek out a suitable spot. You get bonus points for using statistical
> methods or arch-specific disassembly of the executable code.

Do that and I'll find time to port *BSD libc to Linux.

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