[PATCH] putgrent/putpwent and +/- entries

[Ulrich Drepper]

Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> putpwent and putgrent should not write a '0' as user/group id if an
> entry starting with + or - is written. We have a check in the get*
> code to ignore this, but it is better to not write the values and
> let the fields empty.

I don't have a problem in principle with this but it needs to be 
documented that user/group names starting with +- are everywhere treated 
special.  Provide some text for the manual.

Also, the copyrights in the files weren't updated and the changelog 
format was wrong.

-- 
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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