From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 5 9:41:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FC937B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bobo.thehutt.org (pcp709198pcs.alxndr01.va.comcast.net [68.49.240.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA1643E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerry@thehutt.org) Received: from [10.0.3.13] (helo=nomad.thehutt.org) by bobo.thehutt.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17QWB4-0001FK-01; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 12:43:26 -0400 Received: from jerry by nomad.thehutt.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17QVzv-00009U-00; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 12:31:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:31:54 -0400 From: Jerry A! To: Stephen Hilton Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown syntax changed "POLA" Message-ID: <20020705163154.GA533@nomad.thehutt.org> Reply-To: jerry@thehutt.org References: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Broken Toys Unlimited Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message