Re: groups

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
11 Sep 1998 21:14:53 +0200

Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> Sadly, editing /etc/groups does not automatically cause initgroups() to
> be called in all running processes :-)

No, but writing a new syscall which adds or deletes a group from all
processes with a given uid should be about half an hour's work.

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