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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail•com>
Cc: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, lorenzo@google•com
Subject: Re: ping_group_range documentation patch (question)
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:59:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370685568.868.2.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wUg-WjRM2Ky2wckQdv0M7mm51KNXSFZvWUf03Jr0Q-ueQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 15:56 +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
> Any ideas  what should I do in order  to enable ICMP sockets "for all the world"
> so any use can use them ? and shouldn't this be documented in
> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.tx?
> 

GID_T_MAX is the max you can set, and it is defined as:

#define GID_T_MAX (((gid_t)~0U) >> 1)

that is 2147483647, 4294967295 is larger than it, therefore you got
EINVAL.


Yes, this should be documented, patch is welcome! :)

Thanks!

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-08  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-07 12:56 ping_group_range documentation patch (question) Kevin Wilson
2013-06-08  9:59 ` Cong Wang [this message]

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