[PATCH] getgrent.3: Add ENOENT to error list.

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:23:13AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> It's possible to get ENOENT returned from getgrent
> if the backend, for example say SSSD, isn't configured
> or the daemon isn't running. The same can be said of any
> of the NSS backend.

The daemon not running is internally a NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN +
EAGAIN[1], i.e. that is what the sssd nss plugin should return to
glibc.  glibc then should return that as a NOTFOUND, which for
getgrent is a NULL return without errno set.  I don't see why ENOENT
is necessary.

Siddhesh

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/NSS-Modules-Interface.html
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