NetBSD Problem Report #5
From jtc Thu Oct 7 14:19:20 1993
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 14:19:20 -0700
From: "J.T. Conklin" <jtc>
To: gnats-bugs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: getgroups/setgroups system call should use gid_t * for gidset type.
>Number: 5
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: getgroups/setgroups system call should use gid_t * for gidset type.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: closed
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 07 14:20:01 +0000 1993
>Closed-Date: Mon Mar 28 18:56:01 +0000 1994
>Last-Modified: Thu Oct 31 08:37:44 +0000 2013
>Originator:
>Release: 0.9
>Organization:
Winning Strategies, Inc.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu 0.9a SUN_LAMP#6 i386
>Description:
POSIX.1 has defined the getgroups() system call such that the
gidset argument is type "gid_t *". I don't think that POSIX
standardized setgroups(), but other vendors (like Sun, for
Solaris2) have changed it to use "gid_t *" too.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: jtc->kern-bug-people
Responsible-Changed-By: jtc
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jan 14 14:53:56 1994
Responsible-Changed-Why:
I'm not qualified to fix this.
This bug was erroneously assigned to me when GNATS was being set up.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: jtc
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 28 18:56:01 1994
State-Changed-Why:
Fixed by cgd's uid_t, gid_t, and off_t overhaul.
>Unformatted:
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Subject: getgroups/setgroups system call should use gid_t * for gidset type.
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