expanding `&' in struct passwd.pw_gecos

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Tim Potter wrote:
| On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 10:20 +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
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|>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).

Just curious.  Is anyone besides Luke asking for this ?
I've never heard of such behavior in several years.
If only one or two people want it, I would rather leave
it out.  Or as a local patch.




cheers, jerry
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