netdev - Re: ping_group_range documentation patch (question)

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Message-ID: <1370685568.868.2.camel@cr0>
Date:	Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:59:28 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Kevin Wilson <wkevils@...il.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	lorenzo@...gle.com
Subject: Re: ping_group_range documentation patch (question)

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!

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