Re: glibc and getgrouplist

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> Hi Pavel,
>
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 09:14, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > Well, certain users may have patched 2.3.2 or 2.2.5 with a fixed
> > getgrouplist(). What you suggest would not allow them to use it .
>
> Whether or not getgrouplist() is used is currently a compile time
> option, which I think is fine. Working around external bugs at runtime
> is really too much. Also I don't think it hurts very much to exclude a
> few systems (for 4.6.1, not HEAD) that are capable of using
> getgrouplist() but forgot to patch the version string. A configure flag
> to force the use of getgrouplist() might be an option, but not really
> necessary at this point.
>
> I don't want to introduce some last minute breakage by using untested
> patches. Let's go with a simple hack (or just a release note) for PRE
> and fix this properly for HEAD.

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