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Date:      Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:04:51 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, 'Brooks Davis' <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd
Message-ID:  <86slzvcfb0.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY> (Darren Pilgrim's message of "Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:45:34 -0700")
References:  <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY>

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"Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > What is the point of the underscore in _dhcp and _pflogd?
> It's a convention used for system UIDs to prevent namespace
> collisions with user accounts.

It's not a FreeBSD convention.  If the underscore serves no other
purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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