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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: newgrp(1)
From:       J Wunsch <j () uriah ! heep ! sax ! de>
Date:       1996-05-31 19:53:37
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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
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