Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:46:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Subject: Re: newgrp(1) Message-ID: <199605302046.WAA23320@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605301036.MAA20437@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at "May 30, 96 12:36:13 pm"
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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. ;-)
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