On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:34 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > cc: [email protected] [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] Usage difference between newgrp and > /usr/bin/newgrp? > -------- > > >> Erm... note: You still have to call the external /usr/bin/newgrp >> because it must be a setuid "root" binary to handle groups which are >> normally not part of the users Unix credentials but are accessible >> using group passwords (such password-protected groups are often used >> on universities). >> AFAIK it might be sufficient to execute it like a normal shell command >> and not |exec()| it to replace the current shell process. >> > > If you don't exec it, a new process is created. That is not the > traditional behavior of newgrp which replaces the process with a new > one.
OK, so that explains the difference. AFAIK no action is then required in this case. Thanks for the explanation. Irek _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
