[Bug 53671] New: [PATCH] Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5) man page

[bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53671

           Summary: [PATCH] Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5)
                    man page
           Product: Documentation
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: man-pages
        AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/vQLgFONoPN62D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
        ReportedBy: pschiffe-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
        Regression: No


Created an attachment (id=93141)
 --> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=93141)
man-pages-nsswitch-conf.patch

Attached patch mentions initgroups db, which was added to the glibc in commit
[1] and describes unexpected behaviour for group database with notfound status
and return action, based on comment on line 135 in initgroups.c file [2]. More
detailed explanation of this behaviour can be found in email [4] of email
thread [3].


[1]
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=9f2da732e7b03825027462dd1c46f8b4d18fc1f5
[2]
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=grp/initgroups.c;h=62fd1fc6de5f9ea08f31134c5ab9a36ae2d5af9e;hb=HEAD
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2609
[4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2620

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