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Re: a fix for _chown

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From: Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: a fix for _chown
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:00:49 +0100
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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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