pwdgrp [was: Re: SVID functions used in bb]

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Fri Mar 24 13:00:40 UTC 2006


On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Bernhard Fischer wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:23:52AM +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >Sorry for cross-posting, both lists are affected.
> 
> >Please consider replacing all the above in busybox using SuSv3 versions, 
> >else uClibc users will have to enable bb-internal libpwdgrp and disable 
> >date/rdate.
> 
> We currently have two vaguely similar versions of pwdgrp:
> busybox/libpwdgrp
> uClibc/libc/pwd_grp

Rob mentioned rewriting the full-blown pwd/grp (probably getting rid of 
the lib partially).

> Would it make sense to unify them (e.g. via svn:ext?) and guard the libc
> specific internals with e.g. IN_UCLIBC ?
> 
> PS:
> The uClibc copy didn't (yet) pick up the commentary typo fix
> s/staticly/statically/g
> fwiw..

Thx, corrected

Peter

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