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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 15:52:52 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: getgrgid and errno
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:46:50PM +0200, Julien Ramseier wrote:
>
> > Le 9 juin 2015 à 21:17, Alex <alexinbeijing@...il.com> a écrit :
> >
> > The code which you show says "if (rv) errno = rv". The debugger shows that rv is 0. So the condition is false and errno is not set.
> >
> > It must have been set to ENOENT somewhere above that -- as you single-step through the code, keep printing errno on each line to find out where.
>
> Thanks. I don’t know how I missed that.
>
> errno is set to ENOENT by __nscd_query, since no nscd daemon is running and /var/run/nscd/socket does not exist.
> So getgrgid always sets errno when the group doesn’t exist and no nscd daemon is available.
> Is that expected?
No, it's a bug/oversight. There should be a fix in git master soon
(and it should safely apply to recent releases if you prefer).
Rich
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