From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What to do with too-large group ids?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:11:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je1y9mzynp.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafadobc7dx.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:36:58 +0200")
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-29 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-27 9:33 What to do with too-large group ids? Kai Großjohann
2002-07-27 14:12 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-27 15:47 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-27 20:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-28 10:17 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-29 1:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-29 7:36 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-29 8:08 ` Paul Eggert
2002-07-29 9:11 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-07-29 10:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-30 0:59 ` Richard Stallman
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