[OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released
Jim Meyering
jim@meyering.net
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:29:24 +0200
Didi <ribalba@gmail.com> 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.