getusershell: skip blank lines and commentsHEADmaster

this interface does not have a lot of historical consensus on how it
handles the contents of the /etc/shells file in regard to whitespace
and comments, but the commonality between all checked is that they
ignore lines that are blank or that begin with '#', so that is the
behavior we adopt.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/legacy/getusershell.c b/src/legacy/getusershell.c
index 5fecdec..1c5d98e 100644
--- a/src/legacy/getusershell.c
+++ b/src/legacy/getusershell.c
@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ char *getusershell(void)
 	ssize_t l;
 	if (!f) setusershell();
 	if (!f) return 0;
-	l = getline(&line, &linesize, f);
-	if (l <= 0) return 0;
+	do {
+		l = getline(&line, &linesize, f);
+		if (l <= 0) return 0;
+	} while (line[0] == '#' || line[0] == '\n');
 	if (line[l-1]=='\n') line[l-1]=0;
 	return line;
 }