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typo correction (patch)


Hello,

I propose the following patch, in order to make getgrouplist() to produce a better result, in particular when the number of
groups of a user is more than the first value used by coreutils/id (which is only 10).

diff -uNr cygwin-snapshot-20140523-1.original/winsup/cygwin/grp.cc cygwin-snapshot-20140523-1.patched/winsup/cygwin/grp.cc
--- cygwin-snapshot-20140523-1.original/winsup/cygwin/grp.cc	2014-05-23 12:31:13.000000000 +0200
+++ cygwin-snapshot-20140523-1.patched/winsup/cygwin/grp.cc	2014-05-26 15:08:37.542897300 +0200
@@ -656,11 +656,11 @@
 	  groups[cnt] = grp->gr_gid;
 	++cnt;
       }
-  *ngroups = cnt;
   if (cnt > *ngroups)
     ret = -1;
   else
     ret = cnt;
+  *ngroups = cnt;
 
   syscall_printf ( "%d = getgrouplist(%s, %u, %p, %d)",
 		  ret, user, gid, groups, *ngroups);

 

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.


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