Re: GECOS expansion

To: Luke Mewburn <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: GECOS expansion
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:39:42 +0000

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:19:17PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
 >   | Why can't those patches be fed upstream?  NetBSD is not the only OS that
 >   | documents a magic meaning of "&" in the gecos field.
 > 
 > IIRC, samba.org didn't want them.
 > (Probably because Linux (or glibc ?) doesn't know about "&" expansion.)

Linux has always done &-expansion...

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

References:
- GECOS expansion
  - From: Matthias Scheler
- Re: GECOS expansion
  - From: Alan Barrett
- Re: GECOS expansion
  - From: Luke Mewburn

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