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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:51:11 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed patch to /etc/rc
Message-ID:  <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9903121355220.9105-100000@dei.calldei.com>; from Chris Costello on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:00:58PM -0800
References:  <19990312222717.A17750@keltia.freenix.fr> <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9903121355220.9105-100000@dei.calldei.com>

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According to Chris Costello:
>   Are there any advantages of user:group as opposed to user.group?  

None to my knowledge, it is just that user.group is supposed to be more or
less deprecated.

The default is not to support the '.' form but our chown, for old BSD
compatibility, is compiled with -DSUPPORT_DOT (since 4.4BSD Lite).

-=-=-
	if (ischown) {
		if ((cp = strchr(*argv, ':')) != NULL) {
			*cp++ = '\0';
			a_gid(cp);
		}
#ifdef SUPPORT_DOT
		else if ((cp = strchr(*argv, '.')) != NULL) {
			*cp++ = '\0';
			a_gid(cp);
		}
#endif
-=-=-
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #70: Sat Feb 27 09:43:08 CET 1999



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