On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Irek Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a reason why the newgrp builtin and /usr/bin/newgrp behave
> differently on Solaris? /usr/bin/newgrp and newgrp both switch to the
> specified group to execute commands, but if something goes wrong, like
> specifying newgrp --help, the builtin newgrp will terminate the
> calling shell (in case of a login shell this means you're being logged
> out) while /usr/bin/newgrp leaves the calling shell running.

What is the behaviour mandated by the POSIX and SUS standards?

Irek
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