fix: allow std.os.linux.getgroups to accept null #22286
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looking at
man getgroups
andinfo getgroups
this is given as an example:getgroups(0, NULL) is used to get the count of groups so that the correct count can be used to allocate a list of gid_t. However this is not possible with the function signature
getgroups(size: usize, list: *gid_t) usize
where "list" is supposedly a pointer to the beginning of a list of unknown length.equivalent example in Zig after the change: