[PATCH] improve checks on usernames V3.
Ralf Friedl
Ralf.Friedl at online.de
Tue Aug 2 20:16:18 UTC 2011
Tito wrote:
> Hi,
> minor improvements vs. v2 patch:
> 1) some more comments added.
> 2) we now print the position of the illegal character.
>
> ...
> /* We don't use isalnum as it will allow locale-specific non-ASCII */
> /* letters in legacy 8-bit locales. *
What is the problem with locale-specific characters?
I have used user and group names with UTF-8 characters and I didn't
notice a problem so far.
GNU ls even adjusts the width of the user and group names properly for
UTF-8 names, which would be useless if such names can't be created.
(Side note, Busybox ls does not adjust the width and truncates at 8 bytes).
Ralf
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