From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:39:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504171636590.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504171614150.2625-100000@bellevue.puremagic.com>



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.

		Linus