Problem with gid

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Mon Jul 27 15:07:00 GMT 1998


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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