From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: setgroups Date: 18 Apr 2003 01:10:56 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ptnk90u7.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87brz4dagq.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050621456 32131 80.91.224.249 (17 Apr 2003 23:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 18 01:17:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196Id6-0008LZ-00 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 01:17:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196IaK-0000pi-02 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:14:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 196IY9-0000Fz-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 196IXi-0008OJ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:11:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.dokom.net ([195.253.8.218]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196IWv-0007vO-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip168.dokom.de ([195.138.42.168] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 196IY2-0002XB-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 01:12:06 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 18318 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Apr 2003 23:10:56 -0000 Original-To: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2179 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2179 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > > If I'm not mistaken, setgroups might or might not be available on a > > given system. We can test for it in configure and optionally define > > it in posix.c (or maybe elsewhere since it's not posix...), but then > > what? > > Is the situation somehow different from that for getgroups? I was > just about to (try to) make a patch that would add setgroups similarly > to how getgroups is done. Yes, I think we should handle setgroups like the other optional functions, even if there are better ways. Consistency is more important here. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel