On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:37:44 -0700 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can tell I don't use AFS and didn't do my homework. > > I wish you'd noticed and spoken up a month or so ago. > > Unfortunately, I only follow the announcement list. :/ > > > Knowing that, I expect to revert that patch -- unless someone > > can come up with a very good argument for the new behavior. > > > > Out of curiosity, how have you used it? > > Usually to tell whether two shells are in different PAGs, which is > useful when hunting down problems with AFS PAM modules and the like. > Also to tell whether a process is in a PAG at all, although with > current Linux kernels the keyring is the canonical place where that's > stored. Sure. There are PAG "prettifiers" like libnss-afs that make it look a bit different, like 1103204785(AfsPag-c191b1) but still that's just a variation of the basic theme and having it show up in any form is indispensable. Regards, -doc _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
