Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Assigment to GROUPS doesn't return an error code Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:55:19 -0400 Lines: 25 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1439301335 25115 208.118.235.17 (11 Aug 2015 13:55:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Grzegorz Bajson , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mpv6.cwru.edu X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv2.tis.cwru.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.105.37 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11323 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/