7014794: (file) lookupPrincipalByGroupName fails to find NIS group
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Feb 3 05:30:04 PST 2011
Chris Hegarty wrote:
> The changes look fine.
>
> I guess rather than defining RESTARTABLE_RETURN_PTR you could have
> added the error/notFound value to RESTARTABLE_RETURN?
Thanks for looking at this.
The reason for RESTARTABLE_RETURN_PTR is that the reentrant functions on
Solaris return a pointer to the password or group structure rather than
the usual int to indicate success or error.
-Alan
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