On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:38:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There is only a stupid push to try to be more generic than anybody
> actually needs! It makes glibc slower and bigger than it needs to be, and
> quite frankly I don't see the point of having a system call that returns
> the value "32".
here it's 256
>
> If glibc _really_ really doesn't like the fact that Linux has a constant
> NGROUPS
There has been a patch which makes NGROUPS completely dynamic.
> Read my lips: if it doesn't change value during the running of the
> machine, it should not be a system call.
I would put it the other way around: if it changes (i.e. it's dynamic) then
there's no point in supplying a system call. In that case any need for a
max reveals lame programming.
There are only three fundamentally correct numbers: 0, 1 or infinity. All
others are arbitrary (deliberately leaving out 42 ;-)
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