Setting the primary group from within a script

Sanglant has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks:

I'm just starting to use Perl to help me automate some tasks in ClearCase on AIX. Please forgive me if this is an ignorant question.

My question is:

How can I set the group for the process that is running the script?

I have attempted to use this

system ("newgrp","groupname")
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but I discovered from the manpages that this spawns a new shell with the new group (and appears to kill the old one, ending my script unexpectedly!).

Any ideas? Or do you need more information?

Thanks

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Re: Setting the primary group from within a script by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 01, 2001 at 01:46 UTC
`setpgrp 0, $pgrp;` See `perldoc perlfunc` or any perl reference for details. This is a rather unportable function in its details, but should work for you. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l] [select]