On Dec 19 22:53, Takashi Yano wrote:
> 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.

Oops, right.  Thanks for letting me know, pushed!


Corinna

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