Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation

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Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation hga@xxxxxx (27 Jul 2019 22:20 UTC)

Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation Lassi Kortela (28 Jul 2019 14:23 UTC)

Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation John Cowan (28 Jul 2019 22:10 UTC)

Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation Arthur A. Gleckler (29 Jul 2019 03:22 UTC)

Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation Lassi Kortela (29 Jul 2019 06:24 UTC)

Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation hga@xxxxxx (29 Jul 2019 21:22 UTC)

Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation John Cowan (30 Jul 2019 16:00 UTC)

Re: Like Topsy, UNIX growed uids and gids, as is the Chibi Scheme SRFI-170 implementation Arthur A. Gleckler 29 Jul 2019 03:22 UTC

John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> writes:

|  * Call count = getgroups(0, NULL) to get the actual count.
|  * Then call getgroups(count, gid_array);
|
| I prefer this strategy.

It looks like one still has to account for a race
condition with this approach.