From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 5 10:30:38 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 58E3F37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D773343E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:30:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17QWue-0002x9-00; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:30:32 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g65HEjnM068604 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:14:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g65HEisY068603 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:14:45 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: chown syntax changed "POLA" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 17:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 Stephen Hilton wrote: > >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. Note that this paragraph has been there since the start of the public FreeBSD CVS repository in 1994. Which meshes with my memory that ':' has been preferred to separate user and group for as long as I've been seriously using Unix. > and how about script compatability across different UNIX's ? It's POSIX. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message