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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 05:03:46 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: kern/17767: The comments in /etc/group break many programs
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Synopsis: The comments in /etc/group break many programs

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: sheldonh
State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 3 05:01:19 PDT 2000
State-Changed-Why: 
These programs simply shouldn't do that.  The format of the /etc/group  
file is implementation specific.  Ours is well documented (group(5)) and
proper, standard ways of reading its contents are provided (id(1), 
getgrent(3)).

You should take this bad programming practice up with the authors of the
software in which you've discovered it.


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