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Re: a fix for _chown

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From: David Terrell <dbt@xxxxxxxx>
To: Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: a fix for _chown
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:42:05 -0700
Cc: Akinori MUSHA <knu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3B541AE1.911D8538@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from opk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:00:49PM +0100
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Reply-to: David Terrell <dbt@xxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxx  | 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?"

References:
- a fix for _chown
  - From: Akinori MUSHA
- Re: a fix for _chown
  - From: Oliver Kiddle

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