From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 1 14:47:36 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA20475 for current-outgoing; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:47:36 -0700 Received: from plains.nodak.edu (plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA20467 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:47:33 -0700 Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.6.11/8.6.10) id QAA09179; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:47:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:47:27 -0500 From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199509012147.QAA09179@plains.nodak.edu> To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: getgrent() and spaces.. Content-Length: 563 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My question is, before I perhaps dive and try to fix it, is if it's a > feature or a bug? Whitespace sensitivity is generally not a good > thing in configuration files, but there are limits to what one should > go through in order to deal with it, yes? it is a bad thing, but spaces are legal in an account name. If you remove the space sensitivity from a configuration file that holds account names, then you have to remove the spaces from legal account names, or (figuratively) next week someone will stumble across this and file a bug report. --mark.