From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 30 14:02:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24553 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24542 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA15817; Thu, 30 May 1996 23:01:32 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA17267; Thu, 30 May 1996 23:01:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA23320; Thu, 30 May 1996 22:46:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605302046.WAA23320@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: newgrp(1) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:46:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605301036.MAA20437@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at "May 30, 96 12:36:13 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > OSF has it. Is there a chance to get it also for FreeBSD? You don't need it. Traditional SysV's used it to switch between groups at all (à la su(1)), since you could only be member of a single group at a time. SVR4 knows about multiple group memberships, so it's only rarely needed there. Anyway, SysV semantics are to create a file with the primary group ownership. BSD semantics is to create a file inheriting the group ownership from the parent directory -- so who cares for the primary group at all? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)