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+/* xgetgroups.c -- return a list of the groups a user or current process is in
+
+   Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+/* Extracted from coreutils' src/id.c. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "mgetgroups.h"
+
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#include "xalloc.h"
+
+/* Like mgetgroups, but call xalloc_die on allocation failure.  */
+
+int
+xgetgroups (char const *username, gid_t gid, gid_t **groups)
+{
+  int result = mgetgroups (username, gid, groups);
+  if (result == -1 && errno == ENOMEM)
+    xalloc_die ();
+  return result;
+}