From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:19:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: *** empty log message ***
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0q~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c1810823d4301a166e2208d7f667bf4fe3fea4c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

*** empty log message ***
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS
index f077bf1c25..277125fda1 100644
--- a/old/fileutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 Changes in release 4.1:
 [4.0q]
+* chown now works properly when the specified login name contains a period
+  This is at the expense of always looking up the entire USER.GROUP string
+  as a login name first, and only then (upon failure) interpreting the `.'
+  as a separator and looking up `USER'.  To avoid the extra getpwnam call,
+  always use the POSIX-mandated `:' character as the separator.
 * `du some-other-dir' no longer fails if it can't open the current directory
 * `mv DIR EXISTING-FILE' no longer removes EXISTING-FILE.  Now it gets an error
   as POSIX says it must.