From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 14 18:59:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09121 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09113 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id DAA02165; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:55:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980915035523.35224@foobar.franken.de> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:55:23 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: Brian Somers Cc: The Subject: Re: Missing CVS $Id strings References: <19980914015329.18217@foobar.franken.de> <199809141033.LAA09904@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199809141033.LAA09904@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:33:09AM +0100 X-Organisation: BatmanSystemDistribution X-Mission: To free the world from the Penguin Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message