From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 07:33:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DB816A41F; Tue, 23 May 2006 07:33:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A35B43D45; Tue, 23 May 2006 07:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip02.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.10]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IZP002OEJOBVW61@mta01.eastlink.ca>; Tue, 23 May 2006 04:33:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip02.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Tue, 23 May 2006 04:33:29 -0300 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 04:32:04 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <4472B2F7.7030706@freebsd.org> To: Colin Percival Message-id: <4472BA74.5070709@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <4472B1E3.2060903@greenmeadow.ca> <4472B2F7.7030706@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060503) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.ngroups == num. process groups ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 07:33:30 -0000 Colin Percival wrote: > Duane Whitty wrote: > >> I saw a reference to kern.ngroups on this list and didn't know what it >> meant. >> >> I decided to peek at the source and it seems to me that it is the >> number of process groups. Is that correct? >> > > No, kern.ngroups is the maximum number of groups to which a user can > belong at the same time. > > Colin Percival > > > > > Ah, okay. Thanks. It looks like kern_mib.c has lots of good stuff. Much obliged, Duane Whitty -- duane@greenmeadow.ca