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Copyright(C) Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2013.
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pwd/getpwnam.cpp
Searchs the passwd database for a user with the given username in a
thread-insecure manner.
*******************************************************************************/
#include
#include
#include
extern "C" struct passwd* getpwnam(const char* username)
{
static struct passwd result_object;
static char* buf = NULL;
static size_t buflen = 0;
if ( !buf )
{
size_t new_buflen = 64;
if ( !(buf = (char*) malloc(new_buflen)) )
return NULL;
buflen = new_buflen;
}
struct passwd* result;
retry:
int errnum = getpwnam_r(username, &result_object, buf, buflen, &result);
if ( errnum == ERANGE )
{
size_t new_buflen = 2 * buflen;
char* new_buf = (char*) realloc(buf, new_buflen);
if ( !new_buf )
return NULL;
buf = new_buf;
buflen = new_buflen;
goto retry;
}
if ( errnum < 0 )
return errno = errnum, (struct passwd*) NULL;
return result;
}