On May 13 20:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 13 18:17, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > I may have put it a bit incorrectly, > > > > > In that case, your expectations of the getgrXXX functions are wrong. > > > > but I don't think so. I am looking if a user belongs to a group, > > either as their primary or secondary one. So when using getgrXXX() > > I check to see if a user (whose primary, passwd-supplied, gid does not > > match the gid of the group) is listed as a member. In CYGWIN that does > > not work because the information is missing from the group file. > > Then use Windows functions to fetch the information. This is still > better than to add all users to all groups they belong to. The > passwd/group information is kept in memory. I'm shuddering to think of > the memory requirements if all gr_mem fields are filled in a bigger > company.
Instead of using Windows functions you can also use the POSIX function getgrouplist, which is implemented in Cygwin, and which returns a group list containing all groups of a user, provided the group is listed in /etc/groups. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
