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GETGROUPS(2)              NetBSD System Calls Manual              GETGROUPS(2)


NAME
getgroups -- get group access list
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int getgroups(int gidsetlen, gid_t *gidset);
DESCRIPTION
getgroups() gets the current group access list of the current user process and stores it in the array gidset. The parameter gidsetlen indi- cates the number of entries that may be placed in gidset. getgroups() returns the actual number of groups returned in gidset. No more than {NGROUPS_MAX} will ever be returned. If gidsetlen is 0, getgroups() returns the number of groups without modifying the gidset array. This system call only returns the secondary groups.
RETURN VALUES
A successful call returns the number of groups in the group set. A value of -1 indicates that an error occurred, and the error code is stored in the global variable errno.
ERRORS
The possible errors for getgroups() are: [EINVAL] The argument gidsetlen is non-zero and is smaller than the number of groups in the group set. [EFAULT] The argument gidset specifies an invalid address.
SEE ALSO
getegid(2), getgid(2), setgroups(2), initgroups(3)
STANDARDS
The getgroups() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The getgroups() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. NetBSD 10.99 October 7, 2006 NetBSD 10.99
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