https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53671 Summary: [PATCH] Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5) man page Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: pschiffe@xxxxxxxxxx Regression: No Created an attachment (id=93141) --> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=93141) man-pages-nsswitch-conf.patch Attached patch mentions initgroups db, which was added to the glibc in commit [1] and describes unexpected behaviour for group database with notfound status and return action, based on comment on line 135 in initgroups.c file [2]. More detailed explanation of this behaviour can be found in email [4] of email thread [3]. [1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=9f2da732e7b03825027462dd1c46f8b4d18fc1f5 [2] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=grp/initgroups.c;h=62fd1fc6de5f9ea08f31134c5ab9a36ae2d5af9e;hb=HEAD [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2609 [4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2620 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
