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Re: What to do with too-large group ids?
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: What to do with too-large group ids? |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:11:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) |
address@hidden (Kai writes:
|> But if you prefer, I'll return them as strings and update the
|> documentation for file-attributes accordingly. (Something like the
|> following, wording needs to be changed: If the user id is too large
|> for an int, it is returned as a string. This never happens for normal
|> files, but it might happen when there is a filename handler.)
Why can't this happen for normal files? If the uid type has 32 bits then
Emacs may not be able represent a normal uid in a Lisp_Int. Of course,
uid value larger then MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM are rather unlikely, but still
possible.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/27
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/07/27
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/27
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/28
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/29
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Paul Eggert, 2002/07/29
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/29
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/29