Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Coreutils version 6.11 has been released. This is a stable release. >> ** Improvements >> >> id and groups work around an AFS-related bug whereby those programs >> would print an invalid group number, when given no user-name argument. > > I'm hoping that this doesn't mean that coreutils suppresses display of the > PAG group on a system running AFS, since seeing that group is valuable for > debugging. It really is a supplemental group of the process, even though > it's created in the kernel rather than initialized from /etc/groups. For > example: > > windlord:~> id > uid=1000(eagle) gid=0(root) > groups=0(root),4(adm),24(cdrom),29(audio),44(video),1000(eagle),1103312837 > windlord:~> id --version > id (GNU coreutils) 6.10 > > that final group number is useful information. It was always one of the > features of GNU id over, for example, the Solaris implementation that it > didn't suppress that group number, and I've used that before in programs. > > Copied to the AFS list so that people are aware that a change happened in > this area, in case anyone notices differences after a coreutils upgrade.
You can tell I don't use AFS and didn't do my homework. I wish you'd noticed and spoken up a month or so ago. Knowing that, I expect to revert that patch -- unless someone can come up with a very good argument for the new behavior. Out of curiosity, how have you used it? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
