[OpenAFS-devel] setgroups() fails to change pag under linux 2.6

David Thompson thomas@cs.wisc.edu
Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:59:08 -0500


"C. Alex. North-Keys" wrote:
>Is there anyone working on a PAG system that doesn't squat in the group 
>ID space?  Several sites (ours included) have seen failures relating to 
>the use of group permissions when numeric groups in the auxilliary group 
>ID list cannot be mapped back to group names, even on files outside of 
>the AFS space.

Yes, and under linux 2.6 there are also failures in simply _using_ group permissions on uid/gid based file systems, because the PAG breaks the linux 2.6 assumption that the group list is sorted.

Dave