Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Eric Blake on 11/12/2009 11:41 AM:
>> getgroups replaces a library function, so it should not exit(). On the other
>> hand, the mgetgroups interface from coreutils is much nicer to use (one call,
>> instead of 2); that would be a reasonable place to add an xalloc-d
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According to Eric Blake on 11/12/2009 11:41 AM:
> getgroups replaces a library function, so it should not exit(). On the other
> hand, the mgetgroups interface from coreutils is much nicer to use (one call,
> instead of 2); that would be a reasonabl
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According to Jim Meyering on 11/13/2009 2:14 AM:
>> Any problems with committing this series?
>>
>> Eric Blake (5):
>> getgroups: fix logic error
>> getgroups: avoid calling exit
>> getgroups: provide stub for mingw
>> getgroups
Eric Blake wrote:
> These days, I'm not sure how many systems still need the getgroups replacement
> because the system getgroups is buggy. However, there is the issue of mingw,
> which lacks getgroups, and for that matter, any notion of group management
> (well, windows does have groups, as evide
These days, I'm not sure how many systems still need the getgroups replacement
because the system getgroups is buggy. However, there is the issue of mingw,
which lacks getgroups, and for that matter, any notion of group management
(well, windows does have groups, as evidenced by the fact that c