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Re: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names |
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Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:30:48 -0800 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> * lib/userspec.c (parse_with_separator): If a user or group string
> starts with "+", skip the corresponding name-to-ID look-up, since
> such a look-up must fail: user and group names may not include "+".
The usage is portable to OpenBSD 3.9 and FreeBSD current, so there is
some precedent for it. I like the idea myself, even if it doesn't
happen to work on Solaris.