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Author amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, ocean-city, rpetrov
Date 2008-09-24.12:00:45
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Doesn't getgrgid() return the untranslated content of /etc/group?
Then the encoding of this file is relevant.

On cygwin, "mkgroup -l" is often (exclusively?) used to generate this
/etc/group, extracting the user definitions from the Windows settings.
Its source code
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file:mkgroup.c+package:cygwin-1.5
shows that it uses MBCS to encode strings.

Maybe we should start considering cygwin as a posix platform with win32
features; but I am not sure to like this idea.
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Date User Action Args
2008-09-24 12:00:47amaury.forgeotdarcsetrecipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, ocean-city, rpetrov
2008-09-24 12:00:47amaury.forgeotdarcsetmessageid: <1222257647.34.0.460201367742.issue3824@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-09-24 12:00:46amaury.forgeotdarclinkissue3824 messages
2008-09-24 12:00:45amaury.forgeotdarccreate