Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:12:03PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Antti Kantee wrote:
> >As a purely personal remark, I'm glad we finally have newgrp(1), as I've
> >missed it on a couple occasions.
> 
> I thought newgrp(1) was superseded by supplementary groups, apparently 
> it's not.
> 
> Can you remind me where one uses newgrp(1) today - creating files with a 
> special group?

Not with NetBSD's group semantics - files always have the directory's
group.

My recollection of the earlier discussions - a lot of it is on some PR
somewhere - is that the outcome was that it wasn't needed, and wouldn't
be added.

        David

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