From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20066 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 23:42:16 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 23:42:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 6001 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2001 23:42:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15404 Received: (qmail 5986 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 23:42:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:42:05 -0700 From: David Terrell To: Oliver Kiddle Cc: Akinori MUSHA , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: a fix for _chown Message-ID: <20010717164205.B6173@pianosa.catch22.org> Reply-To: David Terrell References: <86itgw6lej.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <3B541AE1.911D8538@u.genie.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i 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 X-Nethack: You feel like someone is making a pointless Nethack reference.--More-- X-Uptime: 4:41PM up 8 days, 22:40, 32 users, load averages: 0.38, 0.29, 0.20 X-Baby: Theodore Marvin Wolpinsky Terrell born 140 days, 1 hours, 55 minutes, 39 seconds ago 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?"