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bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names
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Bernhard Voelker |
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bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names with spaces |
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Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:52:23 +0100 |
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On 01/16/2014 05:27 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>> As there's nothing we can do upstreams, I'm marking this as "not a bug"
>> and set the status to closed.
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> Why "nothing"? And it *is* a bug, IMO.
It is not a bug because your suggestion is already implemented
in upstream coreutils but just not yet picked up by the Cygwin
distribution.
> Currently CYGWIN uses 8.15, which is not behind a lot.
8.15 is already 2 years old:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2012-01/msg00000.html
> They catch up from time to time to right to the current versions of the
> tools...
... and when they do that the next time, then "id -z" will be available
on Cygwin, too.
Have a nice day,
Berny