Hi,
>>>>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:02:59 +0200
>>>>> Tomas Janousek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
tjanouse> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:30:30PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
>> Perhaps, it should be:
>> do {
>> groupids = (gid_t *)xrealloc((gid_t *)groupids,
>> ngroups * sizeof(gid_t));
>> newstate->ngroups = ngroups; /* copy of ngroups for comparision */
>> ret = getgrouplist(identifier, gid, groupids, &ngroups);
>> /*
>> * This is tricky. We do this as long as getgrouplist tells us to
>> * realloc _and_ the number of groups changes. It tells us to realloc
>> * also in the case of failure...
>> */
>> } while (ret == -1 && ngroups == newstate->ngroups);
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I think you're right on the 'ret == -1' test. We want to stay in the loop
> if getgrouplist() fails, AND it returns a different number of groups.
tjanouse> Yes. It should read "ret == -1 && ngroups != newstate->ngroups". I'm
really
tjanouse> confused why I put the "ret != -1" in there.
As far as I read the FreeBSD's getgrouplist() implementation, when it
returns -1, the number of the groups actually filled is set to
ngroups. It is match with the following description in the manpage:
RETURN VALUES
The getgrouplist() function returns -1 if the size of the group list is
too small to hold all the user's groups. Here, the group array will be
filled with as many groups as will fit.
So, I think that "ret == -1 && ngroups != newstate->ngroups" doesn't
work on at least FreeBSD.
Sincerely,
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