Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 21:53:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: kevin@NDA.COM, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: newgrp(1) Message-ID: <199605311953.VAA26576@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 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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