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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: newgrp(1)
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer)
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 21:53:37 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <8754.833541087@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "May 31, 96 12:11:27 pm"
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As Gary Palmer wrote:

> I think a newgrp command would be basically useless without breaking a
> lot of existing installations by changing the inheritance
> system. Since we are NOT trying to be SYS V, we are trying to be a
> stable system which doesn't go switching things around without good
> reason, I don't think a move to SYS V semantics is likely...

The only possible reason i see were the Posix compliance Jason Thorpe
(?) claimed.  However, i cannot find it in my Posix.2 draft.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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