Re: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for checking.
I've confirmed that the syntax also portable to NetBSD 1.6
and MacOS X 7.9.0 systems.  That's good enough for me.
I've checked in that change.