Re: Accepted coreutils 5.0.90-1 (i386 source all)
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:25:53AM -0400, you wrote:
If it didn't manate this, and lots of stuff broke when the POSIX
rules changed, then people would be blaming the LSB for breaking lots
of essential scripts. You can't win either way...
Sure you can. LSB should have recognized that the syntax had already
been deprectated for years and told people not to use it rather than
telling them that it was fine.
Whose fault is this really? POSIX, for mandating something that
breaks huge numbers of historical scripts? That's what I would vote
for....
POSIX deprecated user.group syntax for a very good reason--"." is a
perfectly valid character in either a user or a group, which makes it an
ambiguous form. user:group is unambiguous because neither a user nor a
group can ever contain ":". I forsee usernames with "." becoming more
and more common as more people start using >8 char usernames in
Firstname.Lastname format. (I personally find them ghastly, but "they"
didn't ask. :)
Mike Stone
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