On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, David Holland wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 05:19:54PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 08:10:27PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > In my opinion, the -user and -group primaries should work strictly with
> > _names_, and _never_ fallback to {u,g}id values; we could easily add
> > new primaries -uid and -gid to search for the numeric values. However,
> > this would make find(1) incompatible with existing versions.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> I agree; ambiguating what things do is usually not a good idea,
> because eventually the result is that it does something you don't
> expect and then you have to figure out both what it thought you meant
> and what it did.
> [...]
For now though I've fixed it so -user and -group at least behave the
same way.
Thanks!
Your earlier comments about user names not being allowed to start with a
plus or minus were informative. But what about group names? Can they
legally start with plus/minus? :)
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