ncftp: Who are you?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri May 7 22:18:00 GMT 2004


On May  7 14:59, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >78843-13307=65536
> >
> >That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been rebuilt under 
> >1.5.x to become 64 bit clean.
> 
> This is interesting. So you are saying, since ncftp is not 64 bit, and 
> because my userid > 65536 that ncftp maps my uid incorrectly and cannot 
> find me in /etc/passwd?

32 bit clean in terms of uids and gids.  The switch from 1.3.x to
1.5.x changed more than just one datatype size.


Corinna

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