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[userv.git] / spec.sgml

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 <book>
 <title>User service daemon and client specification
 <author>Ian Jackson <email>ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk
-<version>0.64.1</version>
+<version>1.0.0</version>
 
 <abstract>
 This is a specification for a Unix system facility to allow one
@@ -641,12 +641,11 @@ the directory cannot be accessed.
 
 <p>
 A translation will be applied to values before they are used to
-construct a filename, so that the lookup cannot access dotfiles,
-backup files, files in other directories and the like: each slash will
-be replaced with a colon followed by a hyphen <tt>:-</>, and all
-characters which are not lowercase alphanumerics, hyphens or
-underscores will have a colon prepended (so that colons are doubled).
-A parameter value which is the empty string will be replaced with
+construct a filename, so that the lookup cannot access dotfiles or
+files in other directories: values starting with full stops will have
+a colon prepended (making <tt/:./), colons will be doubled, and each
+slash will be replaced with a colon followed by a hyphen <tt>:-</>.  A
+parameter value which is the empty string will be replaced with
 <tt/:empty/ (note that this is different from a parameter not having
 any values).