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: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:36:58 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200207290112.g6T1CVF12879@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027928272 474 127.0.0.1 (29 Jul 2002 07:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 07:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Z56F-00007X-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:37:51 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Z5NN-0005D1-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:55:33 +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 17Z56d-00035N-00; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:38:15 -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 17Z55W-00033w-00; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g6T7b4b00237; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:37:04 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id JAA02720; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:36:59 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 0A93D3ADDC; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:36:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200207290112.g6T1CVF12879@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:12:31 -0600 (MDT)") 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:6129 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6129 Richard Stallman writes: > You could return large uids as strings. They might easily be confused for user names in that case. Also, the very same function uses the trick of using a cons for the device number, so it might be an idea to use the same trick for the user id. 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.) kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)