From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T12:02:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Supplementary groups

Andrew Walrond wrote:

> Is there a function for setting supllementary groups? I don't see a method 
> documented in Process.
> 
> I want the equivalent of man (2) setgroups:
> 
>  - Function: int setgroups (size_t COUNT, gid_t *GROUPS)
>      This function sets the process's supplementary group IDs.  It can
>      only be called from privileged processes.  The COUNT argument
>      specifies the number of group IDs in the array GROUPS.

Don't believe it was there for Ruby 1.6, but in Ruby 1.8 it's just:

     Process.groups = [gid1, gid2, ...]

where the gidx values are either group numbers or names.

Hope this helps,

Lyle