a fix for _chown

a fix for _chown

[Akinori MUSHA]

Hello,

The following patch fixes the _chown compdef for *BSD.

Recently FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT dropped the support for the non-POSIX
notation of the "user.group" style.  Since all the BSD's have chown(1)
that understands the "user:group" style nowadays, I think this is a
reasonable and safe fix for *BSD.

--- _chown.orig Sat Jul 14 15:58:00 2001
+++ _chown      Sat Jul 14 15:58:38 2001
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     fi
     _groups && return 0
   else
-    if [[ $OSTYPE = (solaris*|hpux*) ]]; then
+    if [[ $OSTYPE = (solaris*|hpux*|*bsd*) ]]; then
       suf=':'
     else
       suf='.'


Regards,

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Re: a fix for _chown

[Oliver Kiddle]

Akinori MUSHA wrote:

> The following patch fixes the _chown compdef for *BSD.

Seeing as it hasn't yet been, I'll commit this, to both branches.

> 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.

Oliver

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Re: a fix for _chown

[David Terrell]

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.

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