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Re: Bug#393283: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group na
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Bug#393283: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names |
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Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:10:52 +0200 |
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Michael Stone <address@hidden> writes:
> I guess it's a case of "numeric usernames are stupid" vs "will it break
> something". I don't see much reason *not* to be posix compliant in this
> case, though.
Perhaps there should just be an option to force the numeric name to be
interpreted as a number.
Andreas.
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