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-rw-r--r--grp/initgroups.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/grp/initgroups.c b/grp/initgroups.c
index 4b19594..858dd31 100644
--- a/grp/initgroups.c
+++ b/grp/initgroups.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989,91,93,1996-2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1989,91,93,1996-2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -249,12 +249,11 @@ initgroups (const char *user, gid_t group)
long int limit = __sysconf (_SC_NGROUPS_MAX);
if (limit > 0)
- size = limit;
+ /* We limit the size of the intially allocated array. */
+ size = MIN (limit, 64);
else
- {
- /* No fixed limit on groups. Pick a starting buffer size. */
- size = 16;
- }
+ /* No fixed limit on groups. Pick a starting buffer size. */
+ size = 16;
groups = (gid_t *) malloc (size * sizeof (gid_t));
if (__builtin_expect (groups == NULL, 0))