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Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 6/11/2012 9:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>
>>> ? ? Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names?
>>
>> What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name?
>
> What's to say that any characters won't be valid in a name? Nothing. You
> gotta pick something and start somewhere..

Why not allow (and generate with mkgroup) URL encoding e.g. "Domain%20Users"?

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