David Laight wrote:

>
>The order of the groups matters if the list has to be truncated for any
>reason - when you want a choice over the groups that get discarded.
>
>When I had time, I considered removing the kernel limit on the number
>of groups.  This would lead to the NFS code having to truncate the list.
>  
>
Hmm.. true. But, only the accepted part of the groups would get sorted 
internally. The kernel should just chop off the remaining groups before 
sorting it, in that case.

- Frank