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Re: [LFN22155902] Bugreport: coreutils-6.5 ls -l and uid lookup failure


From: Nicholas Stallard
Subject: Re: [LFN22155902] Bugreport: coreutils-6.5 ls -l and uid lookup failure
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:44:24 +0100

Hello,

> > I think I may have found a bug in the current ls implementation.
> 
> Yes.  Thanks for the bug report.  Unfortunately ls in coreutils 6.5
> had a serious bug and would dereference a null pointer when listing a
> file when the number id or group id had no associated name.  This
> warranted a new version 6.6 to be released.

Oh! Very nice. I have compiled coreutils 6.6 and ls seems to work fine.

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