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* [PATCH] getgrouplist.3: EXAMPLES: improve error handling for getpwnam(3)
@ 2024-03-29  0:21 Fedor Lapshin
  2024-03-29  0:24 ` Fedor Lapshin
  2024-03-30 22:55 ` Alejandro Colomar
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Fedor Lapshin @ 2024-03-29  0:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alejandro Colomar; +Cc: linux-man

Signed-off-by: Fedor Lapshin <fe.lap.prog@gmail.com>
---
 man3/getgrouplist.3 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/getgrouplist.3 b/man3/getgrouplist.3
index 41389b6c3..e2e640d56 100644
--- a/man3/getgrouplist.3
+++ b/man3/getgrouplist.3
@@ -162,10 +162,12 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 \&
     /* Fetch passwd structure (contains first group ID for user). */
 \&
+    errno = 0;
     pw = getpwnam(argv[1]);
     if (pw == NULL) {
-        perror("getpwnam");
-        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+        if (errno) perror("getpwnam");
+        else fprintf(stderr, "no such user\en");
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
 \&
     /* Retrieve group list. */
--
2.34.1

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