glibc and getgrouplist

Roland Illig roland.illig at gmx.de
Fri Jul 22 07:30:11 UTC 2005


Koblinger Egmont wrote:
>>>>       (strcmp(gnu_get_libc_version(), "2.3.3") > 0)
> 
> 
>>Why not? Note the ">" comparison. Since 2.3.3, this should be definitely 
>>fixed.
> 
> 
> Please use strverscmp() or something similar. According to strcmp, 2.3.10 is
> smaller than 2.3.3.

Hmmm, you're right. As we are sure to have a glibc, there's also a 
function strverscmp, which we can use. I had known this issue, but as 
glibc-2.2 only got upto 2.2.6, I thought it would suffice.

Roland



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