On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 01:26, Eric W. Biederman<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> sysconf(_S_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX) returns either -1 or a good >> suggested starting value for buflen. It does not return the >> worst case possible for buflen. > > In my case I have a group with about 50 users in /etc/group > and that is what triggered the problem in udev and caused > all of the udevs group lookups to fail. > > The following patch which dynamically allocates the group member buffer > should fix this problem. Applied. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html