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37 .Nd get group access list
43 .Fn getgroups "int gidsetlen" "gid_t *gidset"
46 gets the current group access list of the current user process
47 and stores it in the array
51 indicates the number of entries that may be placed in
54 returns the actual number of groups returned in
64 returns the number of groups without modifying the
68 This system call only returns the secondary groups.
70 A successful call returns the number of groups in the group set.
71 A value of \-1 indicates that an error occurred, and the error
72 code is stored in the global variable
75 The possible errors for
82 is non-zero and is smaller than the number of groups in the group set.
102 function call appeared in