From: David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>
To: Oliver Kiddle <opk@u.genie.co.uk>
Cc: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: a fix for _chown
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:42:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010717164205.B6173@pianosa.catch22.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B541AE1.911D8538@u.genie.co.uk>; from opk@u.genie.co.uk on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:00:49PM +0100
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:00:49PM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> > Recently FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT dropped the support for the non-POSIX
> > notation of the "user.group" style.
>
> Urgh, do you know why? Surely support for `.' is no more than about two
> lines of code and isn't doing any harm. Admittedly, I'm not a FreeBSD
> user but having first learnt it as `.' I'd find this quite annoying.
Probably to support '.' characters in usernames.
--
David Terrell | "And even when states do spring for essay questions, the
dbt@meat.net | testing companies turn over the scoring of these writing
samples to temps making less than $10 an hour. Aren't America's teachers
better prepared to evaluate our kids than some part-time rent-a-readers?"
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-14 7:05 Akinori MUSHA
2001-07-17 11:00 ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-17 23:42 ` David Terrell [this message]
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