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| author | wosch <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-01-08 22:57:15 +0000 |
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| committer | wosch <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-01-08 22:57:15 +0000 |
| commit | 516a603227f8f3af7b1c43cdd2c8b796555b42fe (patch) | |
| tree | 60b291bc5d1b21b50c2a59ee867eb121783730ea /share/man/man5/group.5 | |
| parent | a3091cdc309772d8fbb7a7373a793f4fda4905dc (diff) | |
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bring section LIMITS back; reviewed by: mpp
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/group.5 b/share/man/man5/group.5 index ea5bda8..06e4749 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/group.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/group.5 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" From: @(#)group.5 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 -.\" $Id: group.5,v 1.5 1996/12/26 02:02:23 wosch Exp $ +.\" $Id: group.5,v 1.6 1996/12/29 15:09:17 wosch Exp $ .\" .Dd September 29, 1994 .Dt GROUP 5 @@ -123,6 +123,20 @@ will use the entire database, even if only a few groups are enabled. Thus, the group name returned by .Fn getgrgid is not guaranteed to have a valid forward mapping. +.Sh LIMITS +There are various limitations which are explained in +the function where they occurs; see section +.Sx SEE ALSO . + +In older implementations, +a group cannot have more than 200 members. The maximum line length of +.Pa /etc/group +is 1024 characters. Longer lines will be skiped. +This limitations disappeared in +.Fx 3.0 . +Older binaries which are statically linked, depend on old +shared libraries, or non-FreeBSD binaries in compatibility mode +may still have this limits. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/group -compact .It Pa /etc/group |
