Re: Problem with id when mgetgroups returns no groups.

[Eric Blake]

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> > * gnulib: Update, for mgetgroups improvments.
> > * src/id.c (print_full_info): Adjust caller to die on allocation
> > failure, and no longer worry about ENOSYS.
> > * src/group-list.c (print_group_list): Likewise.
> > * src/setuidgid.c (main): Likewise.
> 
> Both look fine.  Thanks!

I'm squashing this in, since it is indeed a user-visible regression (commit 
6a31fd8d7).

diff --git i/NEWS w/NEWS
index 9f7bf2e..41622c0 100644
--- i/NEWS
+++ w/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-

 ** Bug fixes

+  id could crash on systems without supplementary group support.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
+
   rm once again handles zero-length arguments properly.
   The rewrite to make rm use fts introduced a regression whereby
   a command like "rm a '' b" would fail to remove "a" and "b", due to