Re: getgroups(3p) typo

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Hello Kevin

On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 00:02, Kevin Brebanov <kevin.brebanov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It looks like the getgroups(3p) manpage has a typo.
> (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getgroups.3p.html)
>
> Under the "Examples" section:
> ---
> int nogroups;
>
> ngroups = getgroups(ngroups_max, group);
> ---
>
> "nogroups" is declared but the return value of getgroups is assigned
> to "ngroups".

This is a bug in the upstream standard. I've filed bug reports:

https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1399
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1400

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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