On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 02:33:15PM +0000, Giuseppe Crino' wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 03:14:55PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > But we'd still need something at least for > > GECOS, where "Your Name,,,," is common. > > As I understand this, those commas are *not* removed by > strbuf_addstr_without_crud(). Instead they're skipped from /etc/pass > -- see `ident.c/copy_gecos()`.
Yeah, you're right. This is a good example of how we are completely unclear on how often the crud-removal is helping. :) But I think that does put us one step closer to possibly dropping the crud-removal, if gecos is already handled (and hopefully "mailinfo" is already cleaning up the names it parsers). -Peff
