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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-01-23 22:47:44 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-01-26 12:31:19 +0100
commit73cfcbac05cff65c5ea91300370b2c14d480d26e (patch)
tree874801625e70c33e1fea7a56f9f7c4e099a4fad4
parent6b5f3dd2246a64c7a0c06f51d10f8db1a475b0be (diff)
downloadcoreutils-73cfcbac05cff65c5ea91300370b2c14d480d26e.tar.xz
TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist.
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+2008-01-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ * TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist.
+
2008-01-23 Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>
Add a ";", so "make install" works with --enable-install-program=su.
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@@ -157,16 +157,16 @@ Add a distcheck-time test to ensure that every distributed
file is either read-only(indicating generated) or is
version-controlled and up to date.
-Implement Ulrich Drepper's suggestion to use getgrouplist rather
- than getugroups. This affects only `id', but makes a big difference
- on systems with many users and/or groups, and makes id usable once
- again on systems where access restrictions make getugroups fail.
+Implement Ulrich Drepper's suggestion to use getgrouplist rather than
+ getugroups. This affects both `id' and `setuidgid', but makes a big
+ difference on systems with many users and/or groups, and makes id usable
+ once again on systems where access restrictions make getugroups fail.
But first we'll need a run-test (either in an autoconf macro or at
run time) to avoid the segfault bug in libc-2.3.2's getgrouplist.
In that case, we'd revert to using a new (to-be-written) getgrouplist
module that does most of what `id' already does. Or just avoid the
buggy use of getgrouplist by never passing it a buffer of length zero.
- See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200327
+ See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/200327
remove `%s' notation (now that they're all gone, add a Makefile.maint sc_
rule to ensure no new ones are added):