From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 20 08:48:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11374 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:48:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (ts05-058.dublin.indigo.ie [194.125.220.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11365 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:48:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA02949 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:25:49 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@ginseng.indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199809201525.QAA02949@indigo.ie> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:25:48 +0000 Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Files: The truth is out there X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Behaviour of initgroups is not good Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, If initgroups() fails it prints an error message to stderr before returning -1. Why does it do this? Since when have libc functions taken upon themselves to print error messages to stderr on failure in addition to returning -1? This is causing problems for me setting up a chrooted non-root cvs pserver. Niall -- Niall Smart, rotel@indigo.ie. Amaze your friends and annoy your enemies: echo '#define if(x) if (!(x))' >> /usr/include/stdio.h To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message