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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:33:00 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>,
	Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>,
	Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rcp rcp.c util.c
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In-Reply-To: <01053109442905.00675@brother>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> What I see in the future is some sort of runtime
> configuration to determine if chown is to use the '.' as a group
> seperator.  Maybe a defaults file /etc/defaults/chown (like SVR4)
> or a sysctl variable user.chown.use_dot and the default be the
> current behavior, but that in our site, we would change the default.

WAY too complicated for such a simple thing.  I just removed
"SUPPORT_DOT" from -current.  This is 2001, it is time to follow POSIX.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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