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Message-ID: <20240409162605.GX4163@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 12:26:05 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Thorsten Glaser <tg@...bsd.de>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Increase NGROUPS_MAX from 32 to 1024
On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 03:46:16PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Kate Deplaix dixit:
>
> >Are there any updates on this by any chance?
>
> This has the possibility of being a major ABI break
> (requiring soname bump) if not for musl then possibly
> for libraries built on musl systems.
I don't think it's the kind of "ABI break" we'd rule out. It would be
if there were interfaces that didn't take a size argument and that
were allowed to write up to NGROUPS_MAX into a caller-provided buffer,
but that's not the case.
I said I'd look at this before and just need to get around to it.
Rich
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