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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2000-12-16 13:01:24 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2000-12-16 13:01:24 +0000
commitad31d9b60cd3bd665ea9f88d5120252855467d98 (patch)
treef4e3ade4bfd8dd16f7e66d99ef9b3a89547bb802 /lib/userspec.c
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downloadcoreutils-ad31d9b60cd3bd665ea9f88d5120252855467d98.tar.xz
tweak a comment
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diff --git a/lib/userspec.c b/lib/userspec.c
index 27b687d43..3b69d7395 100644
--- a/lib/userspec.c
+++ b/lib/userspec.c
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ is_number (const char *str)
use the given user's login group.
If SPEC_ARG contains a `:', then use that as the separator, ignoring
any `.'s. If there is no `:', but there is a `.', then first look
- up SPEC_ARG as a login name. If that look-up fails, then try again
- interpreting the `.' as a separator.
+ up the entire SPEC_ARG as a login name. If that look-up fails, then
+ try again interpreting the `.' as a separator.
USERNAME and GROUPNAME will be in newly malloc'd memory.
Either one might be NULL instead, indicating that it was not