2013-02-19 Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
[emacs.git] / lib / getgroups.c
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1 /* provide consistent interface to getgroups for systems that don't allow N==0
3 Copyright (C) 1996, 1999, 2003, 2006-2013 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 at least Ultrix 4.3 and NextStep 3.2, getgroups (0, NULL) always
47 fails. On other systems, it returns the number of supplemental
48 groups for the process. This function handles that special case
49 and lets the system-provided function handle all others. However,
50 it can fail with ENOMEM if memory is tight. It is unspecified
51 whether the effective group id is included in the list. */
53 int
54 rpl_getgroups (int n, gid_t *group)
56 int n_groups;
57 GETGROUPS_T *gbuf;
58 int saved_errno;
60 if (n < 0)
62 errno = EINVAL;
63 return -1;
66 if (n != 0 || !GETGROUPS_ZERO_BUG)
68 int result;
69 if (sizeof *group == sizeof *gbuf)
70 return getgroups (n, (GETGROUPS_T *) group);
72 if (SIZE_MAX / sizeof *gbuf <= n)
74 errno = ENOMEM;
75 return -1;
77 gbuf = malloc (n * sizeof *gbuf);
78 if (!gbuf)
79 return -1;
80 result = getgroups (n, gbuf);
81 if (0 <= result)
83 n = result;
84 while (n--)
85 group[n] = gbuf[n];
87 saved_errno = errno;
88 free (gbuf);
89 errno == saved_errno;
90 return result;
93 n = 20;
94 while (1)
96 /* No need to worry about address arithmetic overflow here,
97 since the ancient systems that we're running on have low
98 limits on the number of secondary groups. */
99 gbuf = malloc (n * sizeof *gbuf);
100 if (!gbuf)
101 return -1;
102 n_groups = getgroups (n, gbuf);
103 if (n_groups == -1 ? errno != EINVAL : n_groups < n)
104 break;
105 free (gbuf);
106 n *= 2;
109 saved_errno = errno;
110 free (gbuf);
111 errno = saved_errno;
113 return n_groups;
116 #endif /* HAVE_GETGROUPS */