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Re: coreutils-6.11 released
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils-6.11 released |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:05:47 +0200 |
Russ Allbery <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> 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?
- coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/19
- Message not available
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Russ Allbery, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Davor Ocelic, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Didi, 2008/04/21
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH, 2008/04/21
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/21
- retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Jim Meyering, 2008/04/22
- Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Adam Megacz, 2008/04/22
- Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Jim Meyering, 2008/04/23