group_member(3)

group_member3

Test whether a process is in a group

Usage

#include <unistd.h>

int group_member(gid_t gid);

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

group_member():

    _GNU_SOURCE

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

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.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Standards

GNU.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.