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Re: coreutils-6.11 released
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: coreutils-6.11 released |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:37:44 -0700 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
Unfortunately, I only follow the announcement list. :/
> 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?
Usually to tell whether two shells are in different PAGs, which is useful
when hunting down problems with AFS PAM modules and the like. Also to
tell whether a process is in a PAG at all, although with current Linux
kernels the keyring is the canonical place where that's stored.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/19
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- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/20
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released,
Russ Allbery <=
- 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
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR), 2008/04/25