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From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix util_lookup_group to handle large groups
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:50:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090824175002.GA1413@tango.0pointer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1skgcjea5.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On Mon, 24.08.09 18:50, Ansgar Johannes Pflipsen (pflipsen@ti.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:

> 		errno = 0;
> 		getgrnam_r(group, &grbuf, buf, buflen, &gr);
> 		if (gr != NULL)
> 			gid = gr->gr_gid;
> 		else if (errno = ERANGE) {
> 			buflen *= 2;	<<-- 0 * 2 = 0
> 			continue;
> 		}

One little comment here: on POSIX getrnam_r() doesn't touch
errno. Instead it returns the error value as return value.

Lennart

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-24 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-01  5:26 [PATCH] fix util_lookup_group to handle large groups Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-01 12:36 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-08-01 13:43 ` Kay Sievers
2009-08-24 16:50 ` Ansgar Johannes Pflipsen
2009-08-24 17:50 ` Lennart Poettering [this message]
2009-08-25 12:52 ` Ansgar Johannes Pflipsen

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