From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 13 16:58:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24283 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:58:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24235 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id BAA28990; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:53:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980914015329.18217@foobar.franken.de> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:53:29 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: Brian Somers Cc: The Subject: Re: Missing CVS $Id strings References: <35FB2172.D0F2D90B@dal.net> <199809132314.AAA05075@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199809132314.AAA05075@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:14:51AM +0100 X-Organisation: BatmanSystemDistribution X-Mission: To free the world from the Penguin Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:14:51AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > Here's what I did: > [...] > > /etc/passwd No documented comment chars >From the passwd(5) manpage: Lines whose first non-whitespace character is a pound-sign (#) are com- ments, and are ignored. Blank lines which consist only of spaces, tabs or newlines are also ignored. Note that the last I remember is that this is incorrect in -STABLE (see some -stable archive for more on this topic, the subject was "Finger and getpwent"). -- bye, logix Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message