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Re: a fix for _chown



On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:00:49PM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> > Recently FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT dropped the support for the non-POSIX
> > notation of the "user.group" style.
> 
> Urgh, do you know why? Surely support for `.' is no more than about two
> lines of code and isn't doing any harm. Admittedly, I'm not a FreeBSD
> user but having first learnt it as `.' I'd find this quite annoying.

Probably to support '.' characters in usernames.

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