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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/getgroups.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/getgroups.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/getgroups.c b/lib/getgroups.c index 7dc672d1f4d..d8c77e9a650 100644 --- a/lib/getgroups.c +++ b/lib/getgroups.c @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ /* provide consistent interface to getgroups for systems that don't allow N==0 - Copyright (C) 1996, 1999, 2003, 2006-2019 Free Software Foundation, - Inc. + Copyright (C) 1996, 1999, 2003, 2006-2019 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 @@ -59,8 +58,8 @@ int posix_getgroups (int, gid_t []) __asm ("_getgroups"); # define getgroups posix_getgroups # endif -/* On at least Ultrix 4.3 and NextStep 3.2, getgroups (0, NULL) always - fails. On other systems, it returns the number of supplemental +/* On at least NeXTstep 3.2, getgroups (0, NULL) always fails. + On other systems, it returns the number of supplemental groups for the process. This function handles that special case and lets the system-provided function handle all others. However, it can fail with ENOMEM if memory is tight. It is unspecified |