Re: [Lsb-specauth] [Patch] Remove all depreciated parts from gLSB's command section
Jim Kingdon <[email protected]>
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> chown with '.' is a GNU extension, nevertheless they florish. No, other way around. "." is the way it was since the feature was first invented (BSD maybe, not sure it was in v7). ":" is a standards committee invention designed to deal with "." being legal in a user or group name. > When the LSB requires the '.' then they cannot use SUSv3, when the > shall not support the '.' (= full SUSv3) then they are forced to use the > SUSv3. (Probably I see problem were are none.) There is a problem with keeping "." as we have it (which is that "chown user.one:group.two" is legal in SUS), but it might be hypothetical rather than one we should worry about.