7014794: (file) lookupPrincipalByGroupName fails to find NIS group

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Thu Feb 3 05:30:50 PST 2011


On 02/ 3/11 01:30 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.

OK, thanks. I'm fine with the changes.

-Chris.

>
> -Alan


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