Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:55:23 +0200 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: The <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Missing CVS $Id strings Message-ID: <19980915035523.35224@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <199809141033.LAA09904@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:33:09AM %2B0100 References: <19980914015329.18217@foobar.franken.de> <199809141033.LAA09904@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>
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On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:33:09AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > > /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").
>
> This should be submitted as a bug. Try putting a line beginning with
> ``#'' in your passwd via ``vipw'' on current....
>
As I don't run -CURRENT, i can't say anything on this topic, the
comment-stuff definitely is somehow broken in -STABLE (at least it
can can be called a documentation bug).
To fresh up this whole case again, in the end the 2.2-manpage says:
[...]
updated to properly support netgroups in FreeBSD 2.0.5. Support for com-
ments first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
which doesn't quite fit for a 2.2-manpage (yes, the manpage is
correct for 2.2 too, as it says that this behaviour is new in
3.0, still it shouldn't be in a 2.2-manpage IMHO).
Due to me not running -CURRENT, I can't say anything on the
degree of brokenness of this feature there, but nethertheless IMO
it shouldn't be mentioned in the manpage before it's working.
--
bye, logix
<Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein.
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