expanding `&' in struct passwd.pw_gecos

[Tim Potter]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 10:20 +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:20:20PM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>   | Various systems (SunOS 4, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, ...)
>   | support the replacment of occurrences `&' in the pw_gecos
>   | field with the pw_name field.  (See passwd(4) / passwd(5)).
>   | 
>   | Unfortunately this wasn't done inside the getpwent(3) API,
>   | relying upon the end-applications to do this conversion.

> I submitted bug #2154 with an attached patch.
> It implements a new 'passwd expand gecos = <boolean>' global.

I'm planning to apply this patch soon, unless anyone has any objections.
The default for the new parameter is false (i.e no expansion is done).


Tim.
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