Bug 53671 - [PATCH] Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5) man page
Summary: [PATCH] Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5) man page
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: man-pages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2013-02-11 18:12 UTC by Peter Schiffer
Modified: 2013-02-12 03:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Regression: No
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Attachments
man-pages-nsswitch-conf.patch (966 bytes, patch)
2013-02-11 18:12 UTC, Peter Schiffer
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Description Peter Schiffer 2013-02-11 18:12:46 UTC
Created attachment 93141 [details]
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
Comment 1 Michael Kerrisk 2013-02-12 03:31:56 UTC
Thanks. Applied.

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