GETGROUPLIST(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETGROUPLIST(3)

NAME
     ggeettggrroouupplliisstt - calculate group access list

LLIIBBRRAARRYY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
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     int
     ggeettggrroouupplliisstt(const char *name, int basegid, int *groups, int *ngroups);

DESCRIPTION
     The ggeettggrroouupplliisstt() function reads through the group file and calculates
     the group access list for the user specified in name.  The basegid is
     automatically included in the groups list.  Typically this value is given
     as the group number from the password file.

     The resulting group list is returned in the integer array pointed to by
     groups.  The caller specifies the size of the groups array in the integer
     pointed to by ngroups; the actual number of groups found is returned in
     ngroups.

RETURN VALUES
     The ggeettggrroouupplliisstt() function returns -1 if the size of the group list is
     too small to hold all the user's groups.  Here, the group array will be
     filled with as many groups as will fit.

FILES     /etc/group  group membership list

SEE ALSO
     setgroups(2), initgroups(3)

HISTORY     The ggeettggrroouupplliisstt() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.

BUGS
     The ggeettggrroouupplliisstt() function uses the routines based on getgrent(3).  If
     the invoking program uses any of these routines, the group structure will
     be overwritten in the call to ggeettggrroouupplliisstt().

BSD                              June 9, 1993                              BSD