From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 15: 4:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E05153F7 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id AAA22163 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:03:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id B41018848; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:51:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:51:11 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch to /etc/rc Message-ID: <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990312222717.A17750@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Costello on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:00:58PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5130 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Chris Costello: > Are there any advantages of user:group as opposed to user.group? None to my knowledge, it is just that user.group is supposed to be more or less deprecated. The default is not to support the '.' form but our chown, for old BSD compatibility, is compiled with -DSUPPORT_DOT (since 4.4BSD Lite). -=-=- if (ischown) { if ((cp = strchr(*argv, ':')) != NULL) { *cp++ = '\0'; a_gid(cp); } #ifdef SUPPORT_DOT else if ((cp = strchr(*argv, '.')) != NULL) { *cp++ = '\0'; a_gid(cp); } #endif -=-=- -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #70: Sat Feb 27 09:43:08 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message