From:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: getgrnam fix?
12 Feb 1998 10:00:11 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<Eo9y82.3n5.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References:	<199802120012 DOT QAA00464 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com>
Reply-To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <199802120012 DOT QAA00464 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com>,
Geoffrey Noer  <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Some people have complained about the fact that getgrnam does not
>return NULL when there is an /etc/group that doesn't contain the right
>group ID.
>
>The patch that follows adds the default group line into the
>group file in memory when /etc/group isn't found.  getgrnam will then
>return NULL if the group file in memory doesn't contain the requested
>group.
>
>Will this cause problems I'm not thinking of?  I don't think so but...

It looks right to me.  Are there similar issues with getpwnam?
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