default should proceed at the speed of the disk. Previously /dev/urandom
was used if available, which is relatively slow on GNU/Linux systems.
+** Portability
+
+ `id -G $USER` now works correctly even on Darwin and NetBSD. Previously it
+ would either truncate the group list to 10, or go into an infinite loop,
+ due to their non-standard getgroups implementations.
+ [truncation introduced in coreutils-6.11]
+ [infinite loop introduced in coreutils-7.1]
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 7.2 (2009-03-31) [stable]
** New features
Steve Ward planet36@gmail.com
Steven G. Johnson stevenj@alum.mit.edu
Steven Mocking ufo@quicknet.nl
+Steven Parkes smparkes@smparkes.net
Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy@yahoo.com
Steven P Watson steven@magelico.net
Stuart Kemp skemp@peter.bmc.com
while (1)
{
GETGROUPS_T *h;
+ int last_n_groups = max_n_groups;
/* getgrouplist updates max_n_groups to num required. */
ng = getgrouplist (username, gid, g, &max_n_groups);
+ /* Some systems (like Darwin) have a bug where they
+ never increase max_n_groups. */
+ if (ng < 0 && last_n_groups == max_n_groups)
+ max_n_groups *= 2;
+
if ((h = realloc_groupbuf (g, max_n_groups)) == NULL)
{
int saved_errno = errno;
if (0 <= ng)
{
*groups = g;
- return ng;
+ /* On success some systems just return 0 from getgrouplist,
+ so return max_n_groups rather than ng. */
+ return max_n_groups;
}
}
}
misc/head-c \
misc/head-pos \
misc/id-context \
+ misc/id-groups \
misc/md5sum \
misc/md5sum-newline \
misc/mknod \
--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# Ensure that "id" outputs groups for a user
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+ set -x
+ id --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/test-lib.sh
+
+fail=0
+id -G $(id -nu) || fail=1
+
+Exit $fail