Re: getgrouplist segfault?

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:

> we can add and use new variable like use_getgrouplist in mc.lib.
> Let system admins or users who defined MC_DATADIR approve this
> setting for their systems.

The drawback of this solution is that people should be aware of the issue
and be aware of the flag in MC. What should be the default value for the
setting - on or off ?

> I think run-time detection of this glibc misfeature is not trivial.

How about gnu_get_libc_version() ? Does this method has any drawbacks ?

> On other hand it's not right to has two MC for both cases.

No, not good. After all this is a simple matter.