Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:31:54 -0400 From: Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org> To: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown syntax changed "POLA" Message-ID: <20020705163154.GA533@nomad.thehutt.org> In-Reply-To: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> References: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:49:44AM -0500, Stephen Hilton wrote:
: 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.
:
: 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 ?
I believe that the ':' separator is defined in the POSIX.2 standard.
Thus, this should *ensure* compatibility with different (well modern,
POSIX.2 compliant) UNIX's.
I know that Solaris, HP-UX and the latest version of the OS formerly
known as OSF/1 all use ':'.
--Jerry
Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
...It's much more important than that!
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