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Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:50:09 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Porting Fileutils 4.0: chgrp, chown, df
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> * 'chgrp' fails if the specified group is not the current group
>   (e.g. $GROUP). This is the same behaviour as the version from 3.16,
>   but I don't think it's very friendly. Since we don't have any real
>   concept of user/groups, should it succeed?

IMHO yes. But if it didn't in 3.16, then there
should be a reason.

> I wonder if some basic user and group support could be added to DJGPP,
> e.g. by adding support for the files $DJDIR/etc/passwd and
> $DJDIR/etc/group. I'm not sure how useful this would be, given that
> there's no easy/nice way to store user, group info for files.

IMHO for DJGPP always suceeding should be OK - applications under DOS
do not depend on ownership, security, etc. Simulating /etc/passwd and 
/etc/group would be too much for this.

Laurynas