bring section LIMITS back; reviewed by: mpp

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Wolfram Schneider 1997-01-08 22:57:15 +00:00
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.\" 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