[PATCH] Return proper status from _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn (bug 20262)

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Jun 30 11:13:00 GMT 2016


On 06/30/2016 12:47 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> The broken status handling only affects this fallback code (group
>> enumeration).  Based on how this is called, I do not see any other forms
>> of fallback.
>
> See nss_compat/compat-initgroups.c.

Thanks.  Is this just a performance issue, or can it alter results 
returned to the application (say if the NIS database and local files are 
inconsistent)?

Florian



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