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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 1995 23:40:02 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   getgrent() and spaces..
Message-ID:  <199509032140.XAA01458@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <4453.809988212@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <4453.809988212@time.cdrom.com>

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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



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