Bug#754813: since 2.19: getpwuid() fails in statically linked programs

[Andrey Gursky <andrey.gursky@e-mail.ua>]

Package: glibc
Version: 2.19-5
Severity: normal

Dear maintainers,

since glibc 2.19 getpwuid() fails in a statically linked program (pw == NULL):

#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pwd.h>

int main()
{
    int uid;
    struct passwd *pw;

    uid=getuid();
    printf("UID=%d\n", uid);
    pw = getpwuid(uid);
    printf("Done.\n");
    if (pw)
        printf("Name=%s\n", pw->pw_name);
    else
        perror("Name=n/a (pw == NULL)");
    return 0;
}

This blocks 576238 [1].

Thanks,
Andrey


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576238