Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:15:00 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@headcandy.com> Cc: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: newgrp(1) Message-ID: <199605301715.KAA10566@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thu, 30 May 1996 09:24:50 -0700 "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> wrote: > This is a SysV-ism. If I'm not mistaken, SysV needs this because you > can only be in one group at a time. This means you need to constantly > newgrp to change group access permissions if you're moving among > multiple groups. > > BSD allows you to be in multiple groups at the same time, so makes > this command pretty much unnecessary. > > This is how I understand it, anyway. I'm sure someone will correct me > if I'm wrong... Actually, POSIX requires it, too. I implemented a newgrp(1) almost a year ago for NetBSD, and forwarded it on to JT (so he could play Standards Cop with it). It's been more-or-less put on the shelf because some other things had higher priority. I do plan, however, on committing it to NetBSD very shortly after 1.2 is released. ----save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/---- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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