Re: What to do with too-large group ids?

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The file-attributes documentation doesn't say that uid/gid can be cons
>> pairs when uid/gid is higher than the integer limit, is that a bug?
>
> The documentation appears to agree with the code: some numbers can be
> conses, but uid/gid cannot.
>
> I think I'll use -1 -- that's what Ange-FTP does.  Emacs is kind
> enough to return -1 when parsing a too-large number already, so now I
> only have to do a fix for XEmacs.  For that, I'll have to talk to some
> other people, though :-)

Err, but isn't this a bug in file-attributes?  I believe there are
systems where uid/gid is 32bit.  Does Emacs just break on those
systems?