group_member - Man Page

test whether a process is in a group

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Synopsis

#include <unistd.h>

int group_member(gid_t gid);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

group_member():

    _GNU_SOURCE

Description

The group_member() function tests whether any of the caller's supplementary group IDs (as returned by getgroups(2)) matches gid.

Return Value

The group_member() function returns nonzero if any of the caller's supplementary group IDs matches gid, and zero otherwise.

Standards

GNU.

See Also

getgid(2), getgroups(2), getgrouplist(3), group(5)

Referenced By

getgrouplist(3), getgroups(2).

2023-10-31 Linux man-pages 6.7