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diff --git a/libmisc/xgetpwuid.c b/libmisc/xgetpwuid.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..23b2d0c --- /dev/null +++ b/libmisc/xgetpwuid.c @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +/* + * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2007 - 2009, Nicolas François + * + * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause + */ + +/* + * According to the Linux-PAM documentation: + * + * 4.1. Care about standard library calls + * + * In general, writers of authorization-granting applications should + * assume that each module is likely to call any or all 'libc' functions. + * For 'libc' functions that return pointers to static/dynamically + * allocated structures (ie. the library allocates the memory and the + * user is not expected to 'free()' it) any module call to this function + * is likely to corrupt a pointer previously obtained by the application. + * The application programmer should either re-call such a 'libc' + * function after a call to the Linux-PAM library, or copy the structure + * contents to some safe area of memory before passing control to the + * Linux-PAM library. + * + * Two important function classes that fall into this category are + * getpwnam(3) and syslog(3). + * + * This file provide wrapper to the getpwnam or getpwnam_r functions. + */ + +#include <config.h> + +#include "pwio.h" + +#define LOOKUP_TYPE struct passwd +#define FUNCTION_NAME getpwuid +#define ARG_TYPE uid_t +#define ARG_NAME uid +#define DUP_FUNCTION __pw_dup +#define HAVE_FUNCTION_R (defined HAVE_GETPWUID_R) + +#include "xgetXXbyYY.c" + |