getgrouplist() and replacement ?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 7 16:43:46 UTC 2009


On Saturday 07 November 2009 14:44, walter harms wrote:
> hi list,
> while testing i notice that  id used  getgrouplist() what is a BSD call not covered by POSIX.
> Unfortunately the libc we use does not cover getgrouplist().
> (replacement code can be found here:http://fxr.googlebit.com/source/lib/libc/gen/getgrouplist.c)
> 
> Dan Fandrich has already posted some nice replacement code. i foresee a future where we have a
> libsposix2c with all the GNU/BSD/XYZ extensions. Any thoughts about this ?

Let's do it when someone actually needs it.
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vda


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