> I have checked your NFS-patch and thought a lot about it, but I see that
> as one of the next step problems in this.
Thanks! Finally someone who noticed this patch.
> The problem with changing NGROUPS_MAX is that this is a constant that
> gets
> compiled into binarys. If I buy a program with no source I might get
> trouble.
Yep! Even with source it is a nuisance having to compile it again
because someone used statically compiled limits.
> I do not know enought about searching algorithms to just stef forward
> and say
> which to use, I might just try to implement it with a hash...
Me too. But there exist something called AVL (binary tree, balanced)
which is much more scalable. I believe it is already in the kernel.
[OFF-TOPIC]: Anyone having experience setting
NGROUPS_MAX > 32 on OSF/1 Alpha 4.0? please mail me.
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