getgrouplist segfault?

Roland Illig roland.illig at gmx.de
Fri Jul 22 07:35:30 UTC 2005


Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we can add and use new variable like use_getgrouplist in mc.lib.
> Let system admins or users who defined MC_DATADIR approve this
> setting for their systems.

So what would be the default value for the variable?

- TRUE on non-glibc systems,
- TRUE on glibc systems with glibc>=2.3.3,
- FALSE otherwise?

> I think run-time detection of this glibc misfeature is not trivial.

I think it _is_ trivial. If we abstract from the possibility of some 
distributions that might patch this thing without increasing the version 
number.

But another question arises: Do we want to keep this variable and the 
patch forever? Or will we remove it in one or two years?

Roland



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