From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...>
Date: 2011-03-05T22:22:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35431] Re: [Ruby 1.8 - Bug #4467] Process.maxgroups= should only accept numeric values

> Hi
>
> Process.maxgroup has more serious issue. Linux has 65536 maxgroup, but Ruby restrict it
> 4096. It's bad. :-/
> So, I'd propse 1) deprecate maxgroups= method 2) maxgroup method use sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX)
> (or NGROUPS_MAX macro if the platform don't have sysctl) instead mysterious 4096.

sitenode: Today, I've searched maxgroups usecase awhile. But, I have
no luck. I haven't
found any usecase. Instead JRuby don't implement both maxgroups and
maxgroups= method. Then, I think this is no big issue...