cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 9 12:01:29 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:04:51AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp at bitfreak.org> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > > What is the point of the underscore in _dhcp and _pflogd?
> > It's a convention used for system UIDs to prevent namespace
> > collisions with user accounts.
> 
> It's not a FreeBSD convention.  If the underscore serves no other
> purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go.

Agreed.

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