Hi Corinna,

On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:31:58 +0100
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> From: Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
> 
> As outlined in the thread starting at
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-December/259055.html,
> newgrp(1) didn't allow numerical group IDs.  While this is in line with
> the shadow-utils version of newgrp(1), it's not what POSIX allows.
> Fix up the code and the documentation to be more in line with POSIX.
> 
> Corinna Vinschen (3):
>   Cygwin: newgrp(1): improve POSIX compatibility
>   Cygwin: doc: utils.xml: improve newgrp(1) documentation
>   Cygwin: add release note for newgrp(1) fixes
> 
>  winsup/cygwin/release/3.6.6 |  3 +++
>  winsup/doc/utils.xml        | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>  winsup/utils/newgrp.c       | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 

Shouldn't this patch series apply for cygwin-3_6-branch as well?
I'm asking because these paches are not cherry picked in to
cygwin-3_6-branch, but documented in release/3.6.6.

-- 
Takashi Yano <[email protected]>

Reply via email to