Re: [libvirt] [PATCH]: don't harcode buffer for getgrnam_r
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:19:38AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
Hi,
determines the maximum needed buffersize for getgrnam_r using sysconf
instead of hardcoding it to 1024 and increases the buffer on ERANGE.
The latter is needed since sysconf is allowed to return -1. Furthermore
some glibc versions seem to return a too small buffer on amd64
(http://bugs.debian.org/520744). O.k. to apply?
It looks a bit weird, using sysconf but 1/ allowing it to fail so
doing the 2/ 1024 value and loop on ERANGE , but well if I understand
correctly taht's forced by some glibc broken behaviour.
My take is that the *= 2 size loop should be bounded to avoid eating
all memory on some intermediate not size related error. Can we really
get over 2^16 groups on a single node ? That sounds like a relatively
safe limit, and if it's over it then sysconf() call should have provided
the larger value in the first place.
So I would be fine with a version with the loop bounded to 65535,
Daniel
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