Re: nsswitch.conf.5: document group merging

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/02/2016 01:03 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a patch to document the recently merged glibc group merge
> support.

Thanks, Marko.

Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ced8f8933673f4efda1d666d26a1a949602035ed
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/GroupMerging
> 
> ---
>  man5/nsswitch.conf.5 | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
> index b99f9fd..8b62796 100644
> --- a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
> +++ b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
> @@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ where
>  .B return
>  |
>  .B continue
> +|
> +.B merge
>  .RE
>  .LP
>  The ! negates the test, matching all possible results except the
> @@ -257,6 +259,16 @@ without affecting the search result.
>  .TP
>  .B continue
>  Call the next lookup function.
> +.TP
> +.B merge
> +.I [SUCCESS=merge]
> +is used between two database entries.
> +When a group is located in the first of the two group entries,
> +processing will continue on to the next one.
> +If the group is also found in the next entry (and the group name and GID
> +are an exact match), the member list of the second entry will be added
> +to the group object to be returned.
> +Available since glibc 2.24.
>  .RE
>  .SS Compatibility mode (compat)
>  The NSS "compat" service is similar to "files" except that it
> 
> Thanks,
> 


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