cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ast-developers] Usage difference between newgrp and /usr/bin/newgrp? --------
> 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. > > Irek > newgrp in ksh is equivalent to exec newgrp. This behavior is permitted by the posix standard and was the behavior in the Bourne shell. I might revisit this for ksh93v. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
