Re: GECOS expansion

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <200807091230.m69CUNsN003554%hedwig.cmf.nrl.navy.mil@localhost>,
Ken Hornstein  <kenh%cmf.nrl.navy.mil@localhost> wrote:
>>NetBSD's Samba package contains a lot patches (which make updating the
>>package very hard) to support GECOS expansion(*).
>>
>>I personally think that this is a really useless feature and it should
>>be removed because it only creates compatibility problems.
>>
>>What do other people think about this?
>
>You know, I've never understood why GECOS expansion isn't handled inside
>of getpwnam() and friends.  It seems that if we are going to support it
>(something I am personally neutral about) that's where it should be; that
>would eliminate the need for applications to support it on their own.

Now this is a good idea!

christos