getgrouplist(3) vs. getgroups(3)

[Roland Illig]

Roland Illig wrote:
> Why do we use getgrouplist(3) at all? What we're interested in are the 
> permissions of the current process, not what's in the system-wide database.

After applying this patch, everything works as usual.

Why have we used a GTree for storing the group IDs of the process? In my 
case, there are only three group IDs. Therefore the linear search is 
much faster than a tree lookup.

$ id -G
100 0 5
$ id -Gn
users wheel operator

Roland
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