On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:23:12AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: | On Wed, 09 Jul 2008, Matthias Scheler wrote: | > NetBSD's Samba package contains a lot patches (which make updating the | > package very hard) to support GECOS expansion(*). | | 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.)
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