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Re: [PATCH] putgrent/putpwent and +/- entries

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:19:52 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] putgrent/putpwent and +/- entries
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <20050111105547.GA2565@suse.de>

Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

putpwent and putgrent should not write a '0' as user/group id if an
entry starting with + or - is written. We have a check in the get*
code to ignore this, but it is better to not write the values and
let the fields empty.

I don't have a problem in principle with this but it needs to be documented that user/group names starting with +- are everywhere treated special. Provide some text for the manual.

Also, the copyrights in the files weren't updated and the changelog format was wrong.

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