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| author | James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> | 2008-02-21 15:01:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-02-21 15:02:07 +0100 |
| commit | 49f7ebaac45f4d20a70c83c8302444b64259c6d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5de5689987d61d6247f0683887b9ed830ed434d4 /NEWS | |
| parent | bf9e98344df01e5a66cc9657bd975ef357773eb2 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-49f7ebaac45f4d20a70c83c8302444b64259c6d3.tar.xz | |
id: use getgrouplist when possible
* gl/m4/mgetgroups.m4: Check for getgrouplist.
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Use getgrouplist, if available.
* TODO: Remove the item about switching to getgrouplist.
* NEWS: mention this
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- configure --enable-no-install-program=groups now works. + id now uses getgrouplist, when possible. This results in + much better performance when there are many users and/or groups. + ls no longer segfaults on files in /proc when linked with an older version of libselinux. E.g., ls -l /proc/sys would dereference a NULL pointer. |