cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jun 9 15:01:45 GMT 2005


In message: <200506091257.j59CvVNu043268 at grovel.grondar.org>
            Mark Murray <markm at freebsd.org> writes:
: "David O'Brien" writes:
: > > It's not a FreeBSD convention.  If the underscore serves no other
: > > purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go.
: > 
: > Agreed.
: 
: Also agreed.

These user names are coded into the programs we're importing.  As
such, if we change the names that are used, then we have to change the
code that references them too.  For _pflogd, this would mean taking
files off the vendor branches.  For _dhcp, it isn't so bad.  By why
gratuitously change it?

Warner


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