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On 13 Apr 2016 11:16, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On 04/12/2016 01:53 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> You can _detect_ this behaviour by using an iterator to find these conflicting > >> entries and then play with /etc/nsswitch.conf to find the service which has > >> them and eventually remove them. > > > > what i previously requested was: > > could you clarify "undefined" ? people could interpret this as memory > > corruption / crashes, while others are are inconsistent results. i think > > we just want the latter. > > ... > > in general i'm fine with "undefined", i would just prefer scoping it a > > bit. it's "undefined" in terms of the result set, but it's not in terms > > of your program eating itself. > > > > so i don't think your desires are at odds with my request. i simply want it > > to say that the return values (or whatever) are undefined rather than having > > the documentation imply all your programs will die an abort/assert crash, or > > enter the "undefined behavior" space like we have with "C undefined behavior". > > I'm sorry, I missed that in your original response. > > You raised a good point. > > Let me rewrite it like this: > > +When processing @samp{merge} for @samp{group} membership, the group GID > +and name must be identical for both entries. If only one or the other is > +a match, the results are unspecified. > > We use the C/C++/POSIX meaning of "unspecified behaviour" here. > > That is to say that glibc imposes no requirements on what the results > should be if a misconfiguration is detected. However, the program is correct > and should not crash. > > If you're OK with that then I'll use that wording. sgtm, thanks -mike
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