[LTP] getpwnam(nobody) failed

[$rik@nth]

Cyril,

I came across the implementation of getpwnam in bionic. But i am not
getting on how to overcome to apply bionic changes to existing LTP for
checking.

https://github.com/android/platform_bionic/blob/master/libc/bionic/stubs.cpp

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:04 PM, $rik@nth <srikanth007m@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Cyril for chiming into the issue. But still it is creating
> these nodes and users with permissions. There might be a use for some
> operations  which needs to be running by nobody. Its just a guess, as
> i didn't dive into bionic libc as you did it.
>
> Does anyone in this group running LTP on android and observed similar
> issue. Any pointers to fix this issue would really helps to lot of
> users running LTP on android platform.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>> Need some help in understanding the behavior of failure cases though
>>> user 'nobody' is present. I am unable to figure it out as i am running
>>> them on android kernel.
>>
>> I glanced over the bionic libc for android and it looks like /etc/passwd
>> is not used at all. The calls are emualted using some android_id_info
>> database there. I'm afraid that you have to look deeper into the bionic
>> libc to figure out how exactly this works.
>>
>> --
>> Cyril Hrubis
>> chrubis@suse.cz
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> M.Srikanth Kumar.



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Thanks & Regards,
M.Srikanth Kumar.