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From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Cc: James Kirkpatrick <jimkirk@uwyo.edu>, zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: chown and chgrp in files module
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:43:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991210164319.A13042@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E11w7ZD-0005l7-00@crucigera.fysh.org>; from zefram@fysh.org on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 05:41:23PM +0000

> Almost.  chown accepts "." to separate username and group, in addition to
> the POSIX ":".  This is the same level of POSIX conformance as GNU chown.

Which is unlike any other chown on the planet.  GNU chown would be a
lot more tolerable if it supported some sort of override to allow
usernames containing periods; such as '--ignore-group' or '::'
ideas which have been suggested elsewhere.


      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-10 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-09 16:02 zefram
1999-12-09 17:20 ` James Kirkpatrick
1999-12-09 17:41   ` Zefram
1999-12-09 18:19     ` James Kirkpatrick
1999-12-09 23:40     ` James Antill
1999-12-13 12:10       ` Zefram
1999-12-10 21:43     ` Clint Adams [this message]

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