[libvirt] [PATCH] build: tolerate unlimited group size

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue May 17 15:22:31 UTC 2011


On 05/17/2011 12:13 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:42:36PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> POSIX allows sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) to return -1 if there
>> is no fixed limit, and requires ERANGE errors to track real size.
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpwuid_r.html
>>
>> Also, on error for get*_r functions, errno is undefined, and the
>> real error was the return value.
>>
>> * src/util/util.c (virGetUserEnt, virGetUserID, virGetGroupID)
>> (virSetUIDGID):  Cope with sysconf failure or too small buffer.
>> Reported by Matthias Bolte.
>> ---
> 
>   ACK,

Thanks; pushed.

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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