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1 /* provide consistent interface to getgroups for systems that don't allow N==0
3 Copyright (C) 1996, 1999, 2003, 2006-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18 /* written by Jim Meyering */
20 #include <config.h>
22 #include <unistd.h>
24 #include <errno.h>
25 #include <stdlib.h>
26 #include <stdint.h>
28 #if !HAVE_GETGROUPS
30 /* Provide a stub that fails with ENOSYS, since there is no group
31 information available on mingw. */
32 int
33 getgroups (int n _GL_UNUSED, GETGROUPS_T *groups _GL_UNUSED)
35 errno = ENOSYS;
36 return -1;
39 #else /* HAVE_GETGROUPS */
41 # undef getgroups
42 # ifndef GETGROUPS_ZERO_BUG
43 # define GETGROUPS_ZERO_BUG 0
44 # endif
46 /* On OS X 10.6 and later, use the usual getgroups, not the one
47 supplied when _DARWIN_C_SOURCE is defined. _DARWIN_C_SOURCE is
48 normally defined, since it means "conform to POSIX, but add
49 non-POSIX extensions even if that violates the POSIX namespace
50 rules", which is what we normally want. But with getgroups there
51 is an inconsistency, and _DARWIN_C_SOURCE means "change getgroups()
52 so that it no longer works right". The BUGS section of compat(5)
53 says that the behavior is dubious if you compile different sections
54 of a program with different _DARWIN_C_SOURCE settings, so fix only
55 the offending symbol. */
56 # ifdef __APPLE__
57 int posix_getgroups (int, gid_t []) __asm ("_getgroups");
58 # define getgroups posix_getgroups
59 # endif
61 /* On at least Ultrix 4.3 and NextStep 3.2, getgroups (0, NULL) always
62 fails. On other systems, it returns the number of supplemental
63 groups for the process. This function handles that special case
64 and lets the system-provided function handle all others. However,
65 it can fail with ENOMEM if memory is tight. It is unspecified
66 whether the effective group id is included in the list. */
68 int
69 rpl_getgroups (int n, gid_t *group)
71 int n_groups;
72 GETGROUPS_T *gbuf;
73 int saved_errno;
75 if (n < 0)
77 errno = EINVAL;
78 return -1;
81 if (n != 0 || !GETGROUPS_ZERO_BUG)
83 int result;
84 if (sizeof *group == sizeof *gbuf)
85 return getgroups (n, (GETGROUPS_T *) group);
87 if (SIZE_MAX / sizeof *gbuf <= n)
89 errno = ENOMEM;
90 return -1;
92 gbuf = malloc (n * sizeof *gbuf);
93 if (!gbuf)
94 return -1;
95 result = getgroups (n, gbuf);
96 if (0 <= result)
98 n = result;
99 while (n--)
100 group[n] = gbuf[n];
102 saved_errno = errno;
103 free (gbuf);
104 errno = saved_errno;
105 return result;
108 n = 20;
109 while (1)
111 /* No need to worry about address arithmetic overflow here,
112 since the ancient systems that we're running on have low
113 limits on the number of secondary groups. */
114 gbuf = malloc (n * sizeof *gbuf);
115 if (!gbuf)
116 return -1;
117 n_groups = getgroups (n, gbuf);
118 if (n_groups == -1 ? errno != EINVAL : n_groups < n)
119 break;
120 free (gbuf);
121 n *= 2;
124 saved_errno = errno;
125 free (gbuf);
126 errno = saved_errno;
128 return n_groups;
131 #endif /* HAVE_GETGROUPS */