From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What to do with too-large group ids? Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:47:49 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027784882 2024 127.0.0.1 (27 Jul 2002 15:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17YTnU-0000WW-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:48:00 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17YU3o-0000uX-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:04:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YTnj-0000jX-00; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YTnQ-0000fS-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g6RFltb01408 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:47:55 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id RAA13964; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:47:50 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id D65C43ADDC; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:47:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:12:28 +0200") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6080 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6080 Simon Josefsson 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 :-) Sorry for the line-noise, kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)