Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[Andy Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> wrote:

> > There are other places this should be done, like newsyslog and inetd. Maybe
> > a function in libutil would be a good thing.
> 
> I don't understand the suggestion. 

I'd want to see behaviour like chown. Failing that (for example if '.' is not
allowed) a function like that is handy.

> All that is needed in those other places is to deal with . in a username
> -- only chown has this "two different kind of separators" problem...

That's not so.

Andy