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| From | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
| Newsgroups | gnu.bash.bug |
| Subject | Re: Assigment to GROUPS doesn't return an error code |
| Date | Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:55:19 -0400 |
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On 8/11/15 5:07 AM, Grzegorz Bajson wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3.30 > Patch Level: 2 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Hi, > According to man page assigment to GROUPS should return error status, > this is not a case: > > "GROUPS An array variable containing the list of groups of which > the current user is a member. Assignments to GROUPS have no effect and > return an error > status. If GROUPS is unset, it loses its special properties, even if > it is subsequently reset." Yes, the documentation is wrong. It should simply say that assignments have no effect. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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Re: Assigment to GROUPS doesn't return an error code Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-08-11 09:55 -0400
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