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Re: [RFC] getgroups2 system call



Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote:

> I know approximately nothing about the FUSE protocol, but would it to be
> feasible to keep a fixed length header with a flag that says extra groups
> can be found in the payload of the message, either before or after the regular
> payload?

We could have a secondary group trailer, I thought about this
possibility, but that is going to cause a lot of changes in filesystems,
since you typically compute the payload length to be packet length minus
header length.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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