3BSD has the V7 scheme, the new kernel code where there is a group list in
the process is not introduced until later/
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 1:46 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 13:31, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>> Grant,
>>
>> Mashey and crew basically did most of the original group work as part of
>> PWB.   If you look at the Sixth Edition sources and the PWB 1.0 stuff, that
>> is one of the places you will find differences.  With Seventh Edition (or I
>> believe as part of the UNIX/TS work that Ken picked up), the Mashey group
>> changes went back into the Research stream. With one of the predecessors to
>> 4.2BSD (it may have 4.1A or 4.1B but frankly I have forgotten) Joy
>> introduced the group scheme we all use today.
>>
>>
> Looking at the TUHS archives, unless I'm missing something, 3BSD has
> groups that appear to be in the modern format:
>
> % ls -l /bsd/3bsd/etc/group
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 44 1980-01-02 22:08 /bsd/3bsd/etc/group
> % cat /bsd/3bsd/etc/group
> staff:*:10:bill,ozalp
> grad:*:20:
> prof:*:30:
> % find . -name 'chgrp*' | xargs ls -l
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6960 Dec 30  1979 ./usr/bin/chgrp
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   26 Feb 12  1979 ./usr/man/man1/chgrp.1
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root  754 Feb 12  1979 ./usr/src/cmd/chgrp.c
>
> -Henry
>