Don't include "posixver.h".

(parse_user_spec): Fall back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless
of POSIX version, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a
compatible extension.  Simplify code by removing a boolean int
that was always nonzero if a string was nonnull.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/lib/userspec.c b/lib/userspec.c
index 4ae083f47..474fb6062 100644
--- a/lib/userspec.c
+++ b/lib/userspec.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* userspec.c -- Parse a user and group string.
-   Copyright (C) 1989-1992, 1997-1998, 2000, 2002-2003 Free Software
+   Copyright (C) 1989-1992, 1997-1998, 2000, 2002-2004 Free Software
    Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 #endif
 
 #include "userspec.h"
-#include "posixver.h"
 #include "xalloc.h"
 #include "xstrtol.h"
 
@@ -158,7 +157,6 @@ parse_user_spec (const char *spec_arg, uid_t *uid, gid_t *gid,
   struct group *grp;
   char *g, *u, *separator;
   char *groupname;
-  int maybe_retry = 0;
   char *dot = NULL;
 
   error_msg = NULL;
@@ -171,17 +169,14 @@ parse_user_spec (const char *spec_arg, uid_t *uid, gid_t *gid,
   separator = strchr (spec, ':');
 
   /* If there is no colon, then see if there's a `.'.  */
-  if (separator == NULL && posix2_version () < 200112)
+  if (separator == NULL)
     {
       dot = strchr (spec, '.');
       /* If there's no colon but there is a `.', then first look up the
 	 whole spec, in case it's an OWNER name that includes a dot.
 	 If that fails, then we'll try again, but interpreting the `.'
-	 as a separator.  */
-      /* FIXME: accepting `.' as the separator is contrary to POSIX.
-	 someday we should drop support for this.  */
-      if (dot)
-	maybe_retry = 1;
+	 as a separator.  This is a compatible extension to POSIX, since
+	 the POSIX-required behavior is always tried first.  */
     }
 
  retry:
@@ -311,10 +306,10 @@ parse_user_spec (const char *spec_arg, uid_t *uid, gid_t *gid,
 	}
     }
 
-  if (error_msg && maybe_retry)
+  if (error_msg && dot)
     {
-      maybe_retry = 0;
       separator = dot;
+      dot = NULL;
       error_msg = NULL;
       goto retry;
     }