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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:12:59 -0600
From: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@...lielinux.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: <shadow.h> function: fgetspent_r

On 01/20/19 09:41, Markus Wichmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> so, I wrote a version of fgetspent_r() now. I based it on fgetspent().
> For style, I adopted the Linux style -- might need to refactor that.
> Returning EILSEQ on format error is a hack, but I found no better code.
> As I said, glibc loops on error, but we do that for no other src/passwd
> function, so we should either not start now or add that feature to every
> other function.
> 
> One thing I noticed: If AccountService requires this interfaces, is it
> possible that it doesn't support TCB shadow files?
> 
> Ciao,
> Markus


It doesn't support TCB shadow files.


> +int fgetspent_r(FILE *f, struct spwd* sp, char *line, size_t size,
struct spwd **spret)

Tiny style nit: I think the * is meant to be kept with 'sp', not 'spwd',
in the second argument.


Thank you so much for this!  I will test this patch out ASAP and report
how well it works.

Best,
--arw

-- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
https://www.adelielinux.org



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