On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Mark R Bannister <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/03/2012 19:34, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Mark R Bannister >> <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 28/03/2012 19:27, Peter Schiffer wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am suggesting the following update of the "notfound" status on the >>>> nsswitch.conf.5 man page. I am not 100% sure that this is the correct >>>> place >>>> where this information on the man page should be placed. Any comments >>>> are >>>> welcome. >>>> >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> I did a rewrite of the nsswitch.conf man page in October last year: >>> >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2366/match=nsswitch+conf >>> >>> I'm still waiting for Michael to incorporate these changes. May I >>> suggest >>> you send in a patch that is applied against this? I would also suggest >>> that >>> if you're going to make reference to "initgroups" you'll need to add some >>> further description somewhere that explains what this is and when you >>> would >>> use it. >> >> Looking a little deeper at this, I'd like another set of eyes. Mark, >> would you be able to review Peter's patch? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael >> > > I can't find this comment in glibc myself, there's nothing to this effect in > grp/initgroups.c ? Follow Peter's URL. > I've tested on a build with glibc 2.5 - admittedly not the latest version > but it does feature the initgroups functionality - and I am not witnessing > this behaviour. My configuration file has no initgroups line, and this > entry: > > group: db [NOTFOUND=return] files > > ...always returns as expected if my /var/db/group.db file does not contain > the group entry that I am searching for. > > So I don't concur with the suggested change ... It looks like the change only arrived in glibc 2.14. Would you be able to take a look there? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
