On Monday 28 April 2008, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > > > i'm guessing the #! change was an accident. otherwise i've > > > incorporated > > > > > > > the > > > > re-order and committed. > > > > -mike > > > > > > Ah, the shebang change was intentional but I forgot to remove it. > > > /bin/sh != /bin/bash on FreeBSD.. > > > Thanks, > > > -Garrett > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# id nobody; echo $? > > uid=99(nobody) gid=99 groups=25(eng),15045(enged),99 > > 1 > > > > After looking at id.c for coreutils-5.21 I tied down the issue to > > getgrgid(3). The errno makes absolutely no sense though, and it seems to > > have been "fixed" between various kernel versions: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ./getgr_t_wrapper.sh > > 42 ($i) not found in /etc/group > > 99 ($i) not found in /etc/group > > Error encountered with getgrgid(99): No such file or directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a > > Linux nova-infra-test1 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Jan 5 17:13:01 EST > > 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > headless-horseman src # ~gcooper/getgr_t_wrapper.sh > > 42 ($i) not found in /etc/group > > Error encountered with getgrgid(42): 0, Success > > 99 ($i) not found in /etc/group > > Error encountered with getgrgid(99): 0, Success > > > > So, the moral of the story I suppose is "don't trust buggy kernels which > > reporting the wrong errno info via get*[gu]id". I really don't like the > > fact that the manpage doesn't match the expected behavior though >:(... > > > > I attached the test source files and have started an upstream discussion > > with the folks at kernel.org: < > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10573>. > > (sorry -- forgot the introduction): > > I was basically saying, "maybe we should avoid looking at exit codes from > id"?
doesnt matter to me so long as the same result is achieved: a method for reliably querying the system for users. i'd point out that since we're so heavily reliant on /etc/passwd already, might as well convert ife to gfe on /etc/passwd. -mike
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