Re: BUG #8139: initdb: Misleading error message when current user not in /etc/passwd

Tom Lane wrote:
> nicolas(at)marchildon(dot)net writes:

> > The man page says:
>
> > RETURN VALUE
> > The getpwnam() and getpwuid() functions return a pointer to a
> > passwd
> > structure, or NULL if the matching entry is not found or an
> > error
> > occurs. If an error occurs, errno is set appropriately. If one
> > wants
> > to check errno after the call, it should be set to zero before
> > the
> > call.
>
> AFAICS, getpwuid is not honoring its specification here: it failed to
> set errno. I don't see that suppressing the strerror result would add
> anything much.

Well, in this case no error occured, but no matching entry was found.
The wording in the manpage is explicit that there not being an entry is
not an error.

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