getgrnam(3) bug

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In article <777 at yabbie.rmit.oz>, rcodi at yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:
> From article <123000002 at ishmael>, by cball at ishmael:
> ...
> > A more natural extension would be the use of a line continuation character.
> > I suggest the following:
> > 
> > 		testgroup:*:1234:somebody,somebodyelse,\
> > 		myself,yourself
> 
> Whilst this sounds a good idea initially, I suspect it would break more
> code than its worth.
> ...
> I suspect a lot of maintenance scripts out there would break instantly.

But nothing out there is using it so nothing would break; only if you
want to _use_ the _extension_ would you need to look at local code for
needed mods. Anyone satisfied by the existing facility would not be
affected.

Thos Sumner       (thos at cca.ucsf.edu)   BITNET:  thos at ucsfcca
(The I.G.)        (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos)

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