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Diffstat (limited to 'bin/chmod/chown.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/chmod/chown.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bin/chmod/chown.8 b/bin/chmod/chown.8 index f4339778698..d7ff3056c47 100644 --- a/bin/chmod/chown.8 +++ b/bin/chmod/chown.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: chown.8,v 1.20 2015/12/31 23:38:16 guenther Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: chown.8,v 1.21 2017/05/28 08:03:36 awolk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)chown.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/31/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 31 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 28 2017 $ .Dt CHOWN 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -166,7 +166,10 @@ Previous versions of the utility used the dot .Pq Sq \&. character to distinguish the group name. -This has been changed to be a colon +This was changed when the utility was first standardised in +.St -p1003.2-92 +to be a colon .Pq Sq \&: -character so that user and -group names may contain the dot character. +character to allow user and group names to contain the dot +character, though the dot separator still remains supported +due to widely required backwards compatibility. |