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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:09:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN
From: David Boyce <dsb@boyski.com>
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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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