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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:02:48 +0900 (JST)
From:      Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Possible incompatible change with initgroups(3)?
Message-ID:  <20250920.080248.183796883139076827.yasu@FreeBSD.org>

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Today I updated my 16.0-CURRENT amd64 system from
main-n280279-b0e7b55a0e90 to main-n280498-b3468202994f and noticed
Postfix emits such error messages as below.

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Sep 20 03:00:11 rolling-vm-freebsd1 postfix/qmgr[2634]: fatal: initgroups: Socket operation on non-socket
Sep 20 03:00:11 rolling-vm-freebsd1 postfix/pickup[2635]: fatal: initgroups: Socket operation on non-socket
Sep 20 03:01:00 rolling-vm-freebsd1 postfix/showq[66274]: fatal: initgroups: Socket operation on non-socket
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So I rebuilt, reinstalled and restared Postfix. Then error message
disappeared.

I checked commit log between b0e7b55a0e90 and b3468202994f, and found
following one.

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commit 0b018cfd81d8
Author:     Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Sep 16 17:52:20 2025 +0200
Commit:     Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: Wed Sep 17 14:16:06 2025 +0200

    initgroups(3): Fix return value on allocation failure
    
    We must not return ENOMEM, but rather -1 with 'errno' set to ENOMEM, as
    described in the manual page and as other implementations are doing.
    A malloc() failure actually already sets ENOMEM for us.  Add comments
    indicating which function set 'errno' each time we return.
    
    While here, improve style and remove useless headers.
    
    Reviewed by:    kib, emaste
    Fixes:          54404cfb13d4 ("In preparation for raising NGROUPS and NGROUPS_MAX, ...")
    MFC after:      5 days
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52580
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According to commit message, it is likely that the commit introduces
some incompatibility with initgroups(3) and that it causes error
messages of Postfix. And if it is correct, then __FreeBSD_version
should be bumped to force packages that use initgroups(3) to be
rebuilt.

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Yasuhiro Kimura


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