Re: glibc and getgrouplist

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:07:11AM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:30:11AM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, you're right. As we are sure to have a glibc, there's also a 
> > function strverscmp, which we can use. I had known this issue, but as 
> > glibc-2.2 only got upto 2.2.6, I thought it would suffice.
> 
> Also AFAIK current 2.3.5 is the last member of the 2.3 series, next one will
> be 2.4 IIRC, but you can never know...

But there will be 2.3.6, maybe 2.3.7 etc. released from glibc-2_3-branch.
Anyway, trying to work around glibc bugs in applications is silly.
If a system is using many groups, the admin better made sure he doesn't run
a buggy glibc that can't handle it.  A workaround can help just one app (mc
in this case), while still many other programs will be broken.

	Jakub