[OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

[Didi]

>  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

Because of this I get many scripts that scan /etc/group and
/etc/passwd in a loop and when I ask why they don't use 'grous' or
'id' I get "Ahh this has been broken for a long time" or "Somehow my
computer is broken".

Is there a way of maybe instead of giving an error message to give
back a pag name. My intent was not to hide the number it was to hide
the error because people think their systems are broken even if there
are not.

I can see the conflict here between users and sysadmins. Does someone
know if there is a way to find out if the group is a pag group or not.
Then I could write a version that still shows the group number but
suppresses the error. Would that be OK?

Cheers Didi

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