On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Jason Thorpe wrote:

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> On Sep 14, 2005, at 1:10 AM, John Nemeth wrote:
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>>      getpwent_r() isn't called by the library, just getgrnam() and
>> getpwnam_r() (it will be getgrnam_r() when I'm done).
>
> Please test it, but I thought that getgrnam() kept its own state,  
> separate from the iterator API.

Hm, I just looked.

getgrnam_r() and getgrgid_r() use a local __grstate_files structure.   
Thus, they do not require the "end" (they do it internally).

getgrent_r(), on the other hand, uses the global _files_state  
instance.  That seems unfortunate (and hardly re-entrant).

Anyway, using getgrnam_r() from within libwrap should be perfectly  
safe, and you don't need any endgrent() step after it.

-- thorpej