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

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> 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?

Because the current file-attributes implementation never creates a
cons (or a string) for user/group id.

I don't know what happens when the id is too large for such a file.
But surely a cons/string is not what happens.

Maybe make_number automatically creates a float when the number is too
large for a Lisp int?  Then the handlers should do that, too, I guess.

kai
-- 
A large number of young women don't trust men with beards.  (BFBS Radio)