Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:39:10AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
>
>
> 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.
> + /*
> + * Go back, and remove crud from the end: some people
> + * have commas etc in their gecos field
> + */
> + dst--;
> + while (--dst >= p) {
> + unsigned char c = *dst;
> + switch (c) {
> + case ',': case ';': case '.':
> + *dst = 0;
> + continue;
> + }
> + break;
> + }
Am I just slow or does the first dst-- make it miss the last trailing
/[,;.]/?
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor
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