cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:46:35 -0600
> From: Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org>
> Sender: owner-cvs-all at freebsd.org
> 
> Mark Murray wrote:
> > "David O'Brien" writes:
> > 
> >>>It's not a FreeBSD convention.  If the underscore serves no other
> >>>purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go.
> >>
> >>Agreed.
> > 
> > 
> > Also agreed.
> > 
> > M
> > --
> > Mark Murray
> > iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
> 
> Disagreed.  It sounds like OPenBSD has a useful convention.  Even though
> it's not the traditional FreeBSD way, it still has merit.

I also disagree. It's a very useful convention. Just because OpenBSD
thought it up first is not a reason for us to use it. Nor does it
require converting existing names (or even use it in the future,
although I would like to see it.

I still miss the old VMS convention that names that include a '$' are
reserved unto the system. (Of course, '$' would not be a good convention
for a Unix type system.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634