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 14:45, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > Well, Roland suggested a much better fix.
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2005-July/msg00282.html
>
> Yes, I read that and that is probably the way to go for HEAD, but I
> don't want that to go into PRE at this time. *Please* let's not
> introduce untested code in PRE one day before the release!
>
> For PRE I would really just like to see a patch for configure that tests
> for glibc < 2.3.3 to disable the use of getgrouplist() and is
> overrideable by the user that knows his system is capable by passing
> --with-getgrouplist to configure.

Roland's patch looks good and it is pretty straight-forward. I vote for
its inclusion in PRE.