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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!news1.digital.com!vixie!nnrp.vix.com!vixie From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: How many members in an /etc/group? Date: 16 Oct 1995 22:53:58 GMT Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 16 Message-ID: <VIXIE.95Oct16155358@wisdom.vix.com> References: <williamsg-1510952330530001@ppp110.quadrant.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: wisdom.home.vix.com In-reply-to: williamsg@quadrant.net's message of 16 Oct 1995 05:26:25 GMT >Is there a maximum for the number of users in a group? Or perhaps >problems with programs parsing /etc/group not expecting large fields >(which would actually mean a problem with the system-level getgrent(3) >routines?) In /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c, we see: #define MAXGRP 200 static char *members[MAXGRP]; #define MAXLINELENGTH 1024 static char line[MAXLINELENGTH]; -- Paul Vixie La Honda, CA "Illegitimibus non carborundum." <paul@vix.com> pacbell!vixie!paul