libbb: new function bb_getgroups() - allocating wrapper around getgroups()

function                                             old     new   delta
bb_getgroups                                           -     111    +111
nexpr                                                843     757     -86
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(add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 111/-86)            Total: 25 bytes

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/bb_getgroups.c b/libbb/bb_getgroups.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..59ae53738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbb/bb_getgroups.c
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Utility routines.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Denys Vlasenko
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPLv2, see file LICENSE in this source tree.
+ */
+
+//kbuild:lib-y += bb_getgroups.o
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+gid_t* FAST_FUNC bb_getgroups(int *ngroups, gid_t *group_array)
+{
+        int n = ngroups ? *ngroups : 0;
+
+        /* getgroups may be a bit expensive, try to use it only once */
+        if (n < 32)
+                n = 32;
+
+        for (;;) {
+// FIXME: ash tries so hard to not die on OOM (when we are called from test),
+// and we spoil it with just one xrealloc here
+                group_array = xrealloc(group_array, (n+1) * sizeof(group_array[0]));
+                n = getgroups(n, group_array);
+                /*
+                 * If buffer is too small, kernel does not return new_n > n.
+                 * It returns -1 and EINVAL:
+                 */
+                if (n >= 0) {
+                        /* Terminator for bb_getgroups(NULL, NULL) usage */
+                        group_array[n] = (gid_t) -1;
+                        break;
+                }
+                if (errno == EINVAL) { /* too small? */
+                        /* This is the way to ask kernel how big the array is */
+                        n = getgroups(0, group_array);
+                        continue;
+                }
+                /* Some other error (should never happen on Linux) */
+                bb_perror_msg_and_die("getgroups");
+        }
+
+        if (ngroups)
+                *ngroups = n;
+        return group_array;
+}