Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ukma!cbosgd!mtune!bakerst!cgh!manta!brant
From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: bug in newgrp?
Message-ID: <283@manta.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 87 04:52:44 GMT
Reply-To: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia
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There appears to be a bug involving newgrp (at least in V3.51).  If I
add myself to another group in /etc/group, then try to newgrp to that
group, newgrp says "Sorry" and bombs.  Actually, since I'm using ksh,
after the failed newgrp (a ksh built-in), the shell itself dies,
logging me out.  Only a full reboot seems to convince the system that
I'm really a member of the new group.  This behavior appears to
deviate from everything I know about how "true" SV should work.

I find myself wondering, what with this bug and the various others
that people have mentioned over the past several months (including the
annoying ksh bug in which the shell dies if the input line exceeds 128
(?) characters, which can easily happen with *), is the AT&T Unix
PC development group still alive, and are they putting together a
new release of the OS?  Or do we just plan on living with what we've
got?  If they're still operating, how do we make sure our favorite
bugs get fixed in the next release?
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant