From: Martin Schlemmer Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:45:19 GMT Subject: Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation Message-ID: <1113821119.16288.13.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 16:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Brad Roberts wrote: > > > > braddr:x:1000:1000:Brad Roberts,,,:/home/braddr:/bin/bash > > > > All gecos entries on all my debian boxes are of the form: > > > > fullname, office number, office extension, and home number > > Ahh, ok. > > I'll make the "cleanup" thing just remove strange characters from the end, > that should fix this kind of thing for now. > > I'd just remove everything after the first strange number, but I can also > see people using the "lastname, firstname" format, and I'd hate to just > ignore firstname in that case. > If we get the info from /etc/passwd, then we should just use whatever before the first [,;] (see patch I posted earlier). If not, then I think AUTHOR_* should be sane). -- Martin Schlemmer