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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:06:56 -0500
From:      Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [n@nectar.com: question regarding getgrent.c rev 1.14] 
Message-ID:  <E0z1CHA-0001Rg-00@spawn.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980728100031.A1374@cs.tu-berlin.de> 
References:  <19980728100031.A1374@cs.tu-berlin.de>

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If ``some users'' refers to me, I apologize for being unclear.
I was considering doing a merge, but I wanted to get clarification
on your comment ``Not a 2.2 candidate''.

And since you answered my question, I've decided that there's
not much point in a merge ... a workaround for 2.x is available,
and 3.0 is around the bend.

All I really want to do is close a PR regarding this (bin/2859).
The PR was opened on 2.1.5, so there's no chance of a merge
to that system anyway.  Further, after some review, I think it 
is debatable that this is filed as a `sw-bug' vs. `change-request'.

Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> 

On 28 July 1998 at 10:00, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Some users request to merge the unlimited group member feature
> from -current to -stable. I don't have the time and 
> resources to do it myself. 
> 
> Wolfram
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> -----
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> From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
> Subject: question regarding getgrent.c rev 1.14
> To: wosch@freebsd.org
> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:14:47 -0500
> Sender: nectar@spawn.nectar.com
> Message-Id: <E0z0tfT-0000XS-00@spawn.nectar.com>
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> Hello,
> 
> getgrent.c
> - ----------------------------
> revision 1.14
> date: 1996/12/25 21:51:24;  author: wosch;  state: Exp;  lines: +91 -19
> Use dynamic allocated buffers instead static buffers. No member or
> line length limit anymore - now 500 members or 5000 members are
> possible. For security group lines longer than 256K will be count as
> an error. 256K should be enough for 65536 users.
> 
> Support comments (lines that begin with a #) if compiled with
> option -DGROUP_IGNORE_COMMENTS.
> 
> Fortunately it seems that all system utilities which use getgrent()
> functions are dynamically linked executables. So you need only
> rebuild libc.so.3.0 if you want this change. Note: if you have
> an old X server which depend on libc.so.2.* you should rebuild
> libc.so.2.* too.
> 
> Not a 2.2 candidate.
> - ----------------------------
> 
> I wondered why this was not something that should be committed
> to the -STABLE branch?  I assume you did not intend that it would
> be by your ``Not a 2.2 candidate'' comment.
> 
> Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
> 
> 
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> -- 
> Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://freebsd.org/~w/ 
> 



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