Re: glib + gecos

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Tomas Ogren wrote:

> I really think that glib should cut away the non-name part from the
> gecos field when extracting 'g_real_name' ..
> 
> The gecos-field normally contains name, phone-number etc.. in a
> comma-separated list.. We only want the name-part when checking for the
> name.. right?

yes, that's also what the windows equivalent means to provide.
so the ,.* part not getting stripped is a bug in actual code.

> 
> /Tomas
> 

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