Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd5n5q9xu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509190924280.9106@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> 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 ;-)

> 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..]".