Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>       * lib/userspec.c (parse_with_separator): If a user or group string
>       starts with "+", skip the corresponding name-to-ID look-up, since
>       such a look-up must fail: user and group names may not include "+".

The usage is portable to OpenBSD 3.9 and FreeBSD current, so there is
some precedent for it.  I like the idea myself, even if it doesn't
happen to work on Solaris.


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