Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

[Jim Meyering]

Didi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  If by "unknown" you mean nameless, that's not what the patch does.
>>  Such a patch would not even have been considered.
>
> I agree that hiding this information in some cases might not be
> optimal, but the main problem is that through this the 'groups'
> command becomes utterly useless and confused quite a lot of users.
> $ groups
> users id: cannot find name for group ID 1091323188
> 1091323188
>
> further
>
> $ id -Gn
> users id: cannot find name for group ID 1091323188
> 1091323188

If someone can provide code to determine efficiently
whether a nameless GID is a PAG then we can probably
make everyone happy.  If that happens, I'll need to
know if there's a standard or accepted mapping from
GID to PAG group name.  Pointers to unencumbered code
would be welcome.