.\" Copyright (c) 1991 Regents of the University of California.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)getgrouplist.3 6.1 (Berkeley) %G%
.Nd calculate group access list
.Fn getgrouplist "const char *name" "int basegid" "int *groups" "int *ngroups"
function reads through the group file and calculates
the group access list for the user specified in
is automatically included in the groups list.
Typically this value is given as
the group number from the password file.
The resulting group list is returned in the integer array pointed to by
The caller specifies the size of the
array in the integer pointed to by
the actual number of groups found is returned in
returns \-1 if the size of the group list is too small to
hold all the user's groups.
Here, the group array will be filled with as many groups as will fit.
.Bl -tag -width /etc/group -compact
uses the routines based on
If the invoking program uses any of these routines,
be overwritten in the call to