Re: emacs server fails to start with large uid on unix

[Benjamin Rutt]

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Does the patch below help?

Not really.  The following expression shows the problem:

(let ((dir server-socket-dir))
  (setq dir (directory-file-name dir))
  (message "%s" (file-attributes dir)))

When eval'd it comes up with:

"(t 2 263283958 705 (17826 29767) (17826 27012) (17826 27012) 117 drwx------ nil
110835300 2)"

Look at the caddr field.

However, my uid is:

$ id
uid=800154870(ruttbe) gid=705(www)

I think that number is too large for an emacs int.  So the problem is in
`file-attributes' then, I think.  --BR