Damian Conway wrote:
>
> > On the matter of gcos or gecos, and passwd or pw_passwd, and all
> > that noise, please consult the User::pwent manpage.
> > There's no reason for all those noisy bits.
>
> Since the standard function provides those noisy bits, this proposal
> names them.
Note that User::pwent does say:
DESCRIPTION
This module's default exports override the core getpwent(),
getpwuid(), and getpwnam() functions, replacing them with
versions that return "User::pwent" objects. This object has
methods that return the similarly named structure field name
from the C's passwd structure from pwd.h; namely name,
passwd, uid, gid, quota, comment, gecos, dir, and shell.
So getpwnam/uid should probably return gecos, not gcos.
-Nate
