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Re: Problem with gid
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Subject: Re: Problem with gid
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 1998 15:05:58 -0700
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@microsoft.sucks.eu.org>
- References: <13756.55699.488365.906175@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
> So, what's the correct solution:
> - tell Bernhard to use:
> nogroup:x:-2:root
> - use strtoul instead of strtol - but this might lead to the same
> problems, just the other way round.
> - fix the reading of gid
The second. Reading negative numbers using strtoul is handled in a
way which does not lead to problems. I've changed it here and will
check it in for 2.1 and 2.0 in a few minutes.
Thanks,
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