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RE: Why mkgroup does not list group members?
- From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr at ncbi dot nlm dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:17:26 +0000
- Subject: RE: Why mkgroup does not list group members?
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I may have put it a bit incorrectly,
> In that case, your expectations of the getgrXXX functions are wrong.
but I don't think so. I am looking if a user belongs to a group,
either as their primary or secondary one. So when using getgrXXX()
I check to see if a user (whose primary, passwd-supplied, gid does not
match the gid of the group) is listed as a member. In CYGWIN that does
not work because the information is missing from the group file.
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI