Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:49:44 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: chown syntax changed "POLA" Message-ID: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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Greetings, From "man chown": COMPATIBILITY Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and group names may contain the dot character. From CVSWeb: MFC: In the SUPPORT_DOT case, warn that seperation with a period is deprecated. In -STABLE, this is default, in -CURRENT it is not, which leads to many a headache for a user coming to -CURRENT without remembering this fact. It is one of the POLA violations we have not avoided by preparing the users for it appopriately. Therefore, a warnx(3) is added here, explicitly to be MFC'd shortly to start the re-education process rolling. Reviewed by: General murmurs of approval in that IRC channel. Revision Changes Path 1.22 +1 -0 src/usr.sbin/chown/chown.c Wow, this really caught me by surprise! Time to review and update my shell scripts. Am i correct in assuming that this will be the "defacto standard" for chown in FreeBSD 4.7 and 5 ?, and how about script compatability across different UNIX's ? Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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