Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > The Perl User::pwent module seems to agree, btw (also about '&'):
> >
> > "Interpretation of the gecos field varies between systems, but
> > traditionally holds 4 comma-separated fields containing the user's
> > full name, office location, work phone number, and home phone number.
> >
> > An & in the gecos field should be replaced by the user's properly
> > capitalized login name."
>
> I vaguelly recall seeing that & somewhere and wondering what
> they do with mcdonalds ;-)
You can't use it in that case.
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> > I still worry about names of the type "Torvalds, Linus", but maybe that's
> > just not an issue.
>
> Does not appear to be. So I'd vote for us doing the "cut at
> first comma, substitute & with toupper(login[0])+login[1..]".
That is exactly the intent.
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