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From: Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@a-quadrat.at>
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Subject: getfacl long groupnames (Cannot allocate memory)
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>Number:         56991
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       getfacl long groupnames (Cannot allocate memory)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    rwatson
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 19 00:10:12 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 06 22:06:18 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 06 22:06:18 PST 2003
>Originator:     Michael Bretterklieber
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD files.a-quadrat.at 5.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #2: Wed Sep 3 12:09:08 CEST 2003 root@files.a-quadrat
.at:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FILES i386


        
>Description:
        it looks like getfacl has problems with long groupnames, getfacl returns the error message: Cannot allocate memory, if
 a groupname exceeds a significant number of chars.
>How-To-Repeat:
        add a group named "averylonggroupname"
        touch acl-test
        setfacl -m g:averylonggroupname:rw acl-test
        bash-2.05b# getfacl acl-test
        #file:acl-test
        #owner:0
        #group:2000
        getfacl: acl-test: Cannot allocate memory

>Fix:

        

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->rwatson 
Responsible-Changed-By: rwatson 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 22 08:14:26 PDT 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Claim ownership of this bug now the weather has improved.  It looks like 
the group name exceeds the maximum permitted: ls -l simply truncates, 
but getfacl reports the truncation error.  For the sake of consistency, 
getfacl should be modified to truncate instead, I suspect. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=56991 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: rwatson 
State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 3 13:01:12 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
I've merged the patch and it appears to work well for me.  You can 
check it out as acl_support.c:1.12.  Please let me know if there are 
any problems, and sorry about the delay in merging! 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=56991 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: rwatson 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 6 22:06:00 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Success reported. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=56991 
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