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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] username surrounded by '( and )' e.g., '(username')
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:17:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c75544b7b60c126d130488ed5dab28e6@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9996885a-3f5c-44bb-8a9e-d06251a62759@b7g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>

>Can someone explain how this happened?
>d-rwxrwxr-x M 8 '(rounin)' '(rounin)' 0 Feb 14 18:28 rounin

it means there isn't an entry for "rounin" in /adm/users,
so it shows the name unchanged as stored by fossil.
(it's stored without the () -- those are just to distinguish the internal
name from a normal name that does appear in /adm/users.)



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-22  9:57 ROuNIN
2010-02-22 13:17 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2010-02-22 18:06 ` Russ Cox

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