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request for it something like it. It was poorly worded and too
far from both POSIX wording and normal (mal)practice by referring to
sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) instead of {NGROUPS_MAX} or NGROUPS. POSIX.1
uses curly braces to mark up "symbolic constants or limits [that may
be] defined in certain headers". Since we don't document this markup,
don't use it. Just use NGROUPS_MAX.
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.\" @(#)getgroups.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/16/94
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.\" $Id: getgroups.2,v 1.4 1998/01/13 01:30:17 alex Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd March 5, 1999
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.Dt GETGROUPS 2
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.Os BSD 4.2
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm getgroups
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.Nd get group access list
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn getgroups "int gidsetlen" "gid_t *gidset"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Fn Getgroups
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gets the current group access list of the user process
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and stores it in the array
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.Fa gidset .
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The parameter
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.Fa gidsetlen
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indicates the number of entries that may be placed in
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.Fa gidset .
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.Fn Getgroups
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returns the actual number of groups returned in
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.Fa gidset .
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No more than
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.Dv NGROUPS_MAX
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will ever
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be returned.
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If
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.Fa gidsetlen
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is zero,
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.Fn getgroups
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returns the number of supplementary group IDs associated with
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the calling process without modifying the array pointed to by
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.Fa gidset .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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A successful call returns the number of groups in the group set.
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A value of -1 indicates that an error occurred, and the error
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code is stored in the global variable
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.Va errno .
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.Sh ERRORS
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The possible errors for
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.Fn getgroups
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are:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The argument
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.Fa gidsetlen
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is smaller than the number of groups in the group set.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The argument
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.Fa gidset
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specifies
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an invalid address.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr setgroups 2 ,
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.Xr initgroups 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn getgroups
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function call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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