Re: problem with getgrgid when using "gcc -static"

[David Stuart]

Interesting,

two follow up questions, though...

When I boot from my 7.2 "rescue" disk, I am able to do the same thing, 
but it works (i.e. the "-static" run reports "users" for the group). 
Does this make sense?

Also,  could this possibly affect another program (like rpm, for instance)?

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:58:21PM -0400, David Stuart wrote:
>  
>
> > address@hidden C]$ gcc foo.c -o foo
> > address@hidden C]$ ./foo
> > uid: 500 gid: 100
> > group=users
> >
> > Everything works fine. But, when I do this:
> >
> > address@hidden C]$ gcc -static foo.c -o foo
> > address@hidden C]$ ./foo
> > uid: 500 gid: 100
> > group=(null)
> >    
>
> Statically linking the program makes it unable to load the 'name
> service switch' modules which look up the group name.  Don't
> statically link programs that need to use any of the getXXbyYY or
> getXXid routines.
>
> zw
>
>