On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:40:44AM +1200, Bill Ryder wrote:
[...]
> This phrase is worrying:
>
> When there is no group id information passed downwards
> then it reverts to old behavior too.
>
> Why would no group id information be passed?
There are a few NFS operations (or related ones such as
for file locking) which do not need that information IIRC.
"old behavior" means doing what it does _today_.
> For someone of my level of knowledge of the kernel the README does not
> convince me it will work in all situations.
NFS with AUTH_UNIX authentication cannot possibly get worse than it is
today with respect to processes in more than 16 groups. And the patch
is effectively disabled for processes in <=16 groups so I wouldn't
worry.
Anyway, a revised patch from you which no longer sorts the first 16
groups for compatibility reasons is probably easier to get merged.
--
Frank
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