From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 3 15:38:23 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA03216 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 15:38:23 -0700 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA03210 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 15:38:21 -0700 Received: from localhost.cs.tu-berlin.de ([130.149.1.128]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA05612; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 00:24:51 +0200 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by localhost (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA01458; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 23:40:02 +0200 Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 23:40:02 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199509032140.XAA01458@localhost> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: getgrent() and spaces.. In-Reply-To: <4453.809988212@time.cdrom.com> References: <4453.809988212@time.cdrom.com> Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What about comments ('#') in /etc/groups? Wolfram Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >I had someone stick me in their wheel group recently and was surprised >when I still didn't appear in wheel. Further investigation revealed >that they'd stuck me in as: > > wheel:*:john,paul,george,ringo, jkh > >See that space? Well, that was enough to nip the group search in the >bud. > >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? > > Jordan