"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> gbuf = xmalloc (gbuf, n * sizeof *gbuf);
Thanks for reporting that. I installed the following patch into
gnulib. This code is fairly new and gets compiled only for ancient
hosts, which explains why nobody else has run into the problem yet.
2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* getgroups.c (getgroups): xmalloc takes one argument, not two.
Bug reported by Alfred M. Szmidt.
Index: getgroups.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/lib/getgroups.c,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -p -u -r1.9 -r1.10
--- getgroups.c 29 Oct 2003 17:27:58 -0000 1.9
+++ getgroups.c 3 Dec 2003 10:17:42 -0000 1.10
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ getgroups (int n, GETGROUPS_T *group)
/* No need to worry about address arithmetic overflow here,
since the ancient systems that we're running on have low
limits on the number of secondary groups. */
- gbuf = xmalloc (gbuf, n * sizeof *gbuf);
+ gbuf = xmalloc (n * sizeof *gbuf);
n_groups = getgroups (n, gbuf);
if (n_groups < n)
break;
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