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Re: alloca in compat-initgroups
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:28:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: alloca in compat-initgroups
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <20040719192954.GA19166@suse.de>
If it would be anything other than libnss_compat I'd say we need to be
cleverer and avoid the malloc if possible. But users of this module
don't deserve better. I did change the return value, though.
NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN is more appropriate.
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