Re: find(1) and group/user handling

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, David Holland wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 05:19:54PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 08:10:27PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >  > In my opinion, the -user and -group primaries should work strictly with
> >  > _names_, and _never_ fallback to {u,g}id values;  we could easily add
> >  > new primaries -uid and -gid to search for the numeric values.  However,
> >  > this would make find(1) incompatible with existing versions.
> >  >
> >  > Comments?
> >
> > I agree; ambiguating what things do is usually not a good idea,
> > because eventually the result is that it does something you don't
> > expect and then you have to figure out both what it thought you meant
> > and what it did.
> > [...]
>
> For now though I've fixed it so -user and -group at least behave the
> same way.

Thanks!

Your earlier comments about user names not being allowed to start with a 
plus or minus were informative.  But what about group names?  Can they 
legally start with plus/minus?  :)




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