On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:45:43PM +0200, Adam Wolk wrote: > Index: chown.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/chmod/chown.8,v > retrieving revision 1.20 > diff -u -p -r1.20 chown.8 > --- chown.8 31 Dec 2015 23:38:16 -0000 1.20 > +++ chown.8 27 May 2017 21:37:48 -0000 > @@ -166,7 +166,12 @@ 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 has been changed when the utility was first
s/has been/was/ > +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 so that user and group names may contain the dot s/may/could/ or s/so that user and group names may/to allow user and group names to/ > +character, however the dot separator still remains supported s/however/though/ > +due to widely required backwards compatibility. > + jmc
