From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 12:01:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EF916A41C; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:01:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE4743D49; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:01:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j59C1L5c073684; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 05:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j59C1Kei073683; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 05:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 05:01:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20050609120120.GC73244@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY> <86slzvcfb0.fsf@xps.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <86slzvcfb0.fsf@xps.des.no> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Darren Pilgrim , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, 'Brooks Davis' , src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:01:29 -0000 On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:04:51AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > "Darren Pilgrim" writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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. Agreed. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)