Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:40:34 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group Message-ID: <199907280340.VAA68413@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:11:49 %2B0200." <19755.933088309@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <19755.933088309@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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In message <19755.933088309@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes:
: +#ifdef SUPPORT_DOT
: + /* Older configurations used '.' between user and group */
: + if ((group = strchr(q, ':')) != NULL ||
: + (group = strchr(q, '.')) != NULL) {
: +#else
: if ((group = strchr(q, ':')) != NULL) {
: +#endif
: *group++ = '\0';
A better patch would check to see if the text to the right of the '.'
is a valid group... However, the above will still parse
fred.jones:fred.jones
in the most desirable way, so I suppose the validity checking is
overkill.
Warner
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