Greetings, Marco Atzeri! > On 05/12/2025 19:48, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Right now, our newgrp is commandline compatible with Linux' newgrp from >>> shadow-utils: >>> >>> - A single '-' reinitializes the environment. >>> - The group must be given as name, not as GID. >>> > Hi Corinnathe current version of newgroup is NOT doing so. > It spins a new shell process IIRC, that's the only way to create a new environment in Windows by an external process. If you take a look at the exec's implementation, it also starts a small code to manage the spawned process. > $ pstree > ?─┬─?───sshd > ├─mintty───bash───pstree > └─ssh-agent > $ newgrp - Users > $ pstree > ?─┬─?───sshd > ├─mintty───bash───bash───pstree > └─ssh-agent > Noticed as it is very easy to bomb the enviroment. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, December 14, 2025 14:02:50 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
