bpo-46606: Reduce stack usage of getgroups and setgroups#31073
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NGROUPS_MAX was 32 before Linux 2.6.4 but 65536 since Linux 2.6.4.
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Looks like this logic is from 1999! Line 1739 in c968092 Operating systems seem to have dramatically increased NGROUPS_MAX since then: https://www.j3e.de/ngroups.html |
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NGROUPS_MAX was 32 before Linux 2.6.4 but 65536 since Linux 2.6.4.
This reduce stack usage more than 200KB. It means less risk of C stackoverflow.
https://bugs.python.org/issue46606