Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:36:10 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r195318 - head/usr.bin/cpio Message-ID: <20090703183609.GA45185@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <200907031754.n63HsXRn084493@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200907031754.n63HsXRn084493@svn.freebsd.org>
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--r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 05:54:33PM +0000, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Modified: head/usr.bin/cpio/cmdline.c > ============================================================================== > --- head/usr.bin/cpio/cmdline.c Fri Jul 3 16:33:42 2009 (r195317) > +++ head/usr.bin/cpio/cmdline.c Fri Jul 3 17:54:33 2009 (r195318) > @@ -268,16 +268,36 @@ cpio_getopt(struct cpio *cpio) > * Parse the argument to the -R or --owner flag. > * > * The format is one of the following: > - * <user> - Override user but not group > - * <user>: - Override both, group is user's default group > - * <user>:<group> - Override both > - * :<group> - Override group but not user > + * <username|uid> - Override user but not group > + * <username>: - Override both, group is user's default group > + * <uid>: - Override user but not group > + * <username|uid>:<groupname|gid> - Override both > + * :<groupname|gid> - Override group but not user > + * > + * Where uid/gid are decimal representations and groupname/username > + * are names to be looked up in system database. Note that > + * uid/gid parsing takes priority over username/groupname lookup, > + * so this won't do a lookup for usernames or group names that > + * consist entirely of digits. Is this behavior specified somewhere? It is counter to the usual rule that the system should attempt to resolve all strings as a name first. For example, the following is from the chown manpage in POSIX.1-2008 If a numeric owner operand exists in the user database as a user name, the user ID number associated with that user name shall be used as the user ID. Numeric usernames are a disaster, especially if they can't match the uid for some reason, but following this rule consistently at least makes things more sane if you're stuck with them. -- Brooks --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKTk+ZXY6L6fI4GtQRAr05AKCfi+4Wh+5DqlwwG4RumKfgYHYoigCgj/ni on202oO4v1XuEGyckC/9a6E= =oewl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--
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