get rid of the runtime test for broken getgroups() and add a compile

time test instead. This also allows us to get rid of the igroups
element of a couple of structures.

1 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/tests/getgroups.c b/source/tests/getgroups.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..37990e010b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/tests/getgroups.c
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+/* this tests whether getgroups actually returns lists of integers
+   rather than gid_t. The test only works if the user running
+   the test is in at least 1 group 
+
+   The test is designed to check for those broken OSes that define
+   getgroups() as returning an array of gid_t but actually return a
+   array of ints! Ultrix is one culprit
+  */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <grp.h>
+
+main()
+{
+	int i;
+	int *igroups;
+	char *cgroups;
+	int grp = 0;
+	int  ngroups = getgroups(0,&grp);
+
+	if (sizeof(gid_t) == sizeof(int)) {
+		fprintf(stderr,"gid_t and int are the same size\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	if (ngroups <= 0)
+		ngroups = 32;
+
+	igroups = (int *)malloc(sizeof(int)*ngroups);
+
+	for (i=0;i<ngroups;i++)
+		igroups[i] = 0x42424242;
+
+	ngroups = getgroups(ngroups,(gid_t *)igroups);
+
+	if (igroups[0] == 0x42424242)
+		ngroups = 0;
+
+	if (ngroups == 0) {
+		printf("WARNING: can't determine getgroups return type\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	
+	cgroups = (char *)igroups;
+
+	if (ngroups == 1 && 
+	    cgroups[2] == 0x42 && cgroups[3] == 0x42) {
+		fprintf(stderr,"getgroups returns gid_t\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	  
+	for (i=0;i<ngroups;i++) {
+		if (igroups[i] == 0x42424242) {
+			fprintf(stderr,"getgroups returns gid_t\n");
+			exit(1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	exit(0);
+}