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 To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
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 Subject: Re: bin/1387: Group file errors cause absolute havoc 
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 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
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 On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 23:46:56 +0000  David Nugent wrote:
 
 > >  This problem is due to getpwent() and friends bailing out on
 > >  malformed lines instead of ignoring them.
 > 
 > FWIW, yes, I agree. I also think problems of this kind should be
 > notified in syslog.
 
 I thought about this but decided that too many things parsed
 /etc/group too often to make this standard.  Better to run grpck (hmm,
 we don't have one) at the time of the edit.
 
 I also wanted the patch to be as small and simple as possible in the
 event that it could be included into 2.2.  The current behaviour is
 nasty. :-(
 
 Regards,
 
 Giles
 
 
