Derrick Brashear wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:00:46 -0400
Jason Edgecombe <[email protected]> wrote:
ok, so -supergroups expands parents and -expandgroups expands
children?
No. -expandgroups expands whatever we're displaying (I think). If you
are displaying the children of a group, -expandgroups will expand all of
the children. If you are displaying what groups an entry is in,
-expandgroups will expand all of the supergroups.
-supergroups displays the containing groups of a group instead of the
group membership. That is, currently if you pass 'pts mem' a group, it
will display the members of that group; if you give it a user, it will
display the groups that user is in. Before -supergroups, there was no
way to display what groups a group was in.
Let me try an example to explain all of them. Say we have a group
group1, which contains group2, which contains user3.
'pts mem group1' will display "group2".
'pts mem group1 -expandgroups' will display "group2, user3"
'pts mem group2 -supergroups' will display "g1".
'pts mem user3' will display "group2"
'pts mem user3 -expandgroups' will display "group2, group1"
If that's the case, -supergroups would make more sense as
"-parentgroups"
Is it too late to rename that option?
I thought that the term 'supergroup' has always referred to a group that
contained another group (in AFS PTS).
Unless you're moose, it has.
So, you're listing the group's
supergroups... I don't know, it makes sense to me. We could just make a
-parentgroups switch do the same thing as -supergroups, if there is
demand.
This is the first time I've seen parentgroup used ever.
-parentgroup is my own invention. supergroup is the proper AFS term.
When I first red about the -supergroup option, it wasn't clear what it
did and the option wasn't a good mnemonic. That's why I suggested the
option be named -parentgroup.
Jason
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