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- From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
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- >>IEEE Std 1003.1 defines "group ID" and "user ID" to be NON-NEGATIVE
- >>integers in Section 2.3. This is in conformance with existing practice
- >>that Sun gratuitously ignored in their NFS implementation.
- >
- >Hmmm. This could, indeed, cause problems.
- >
- >Who's going to change?
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- All together now: "fixed in 4.1" (unless they've ripped the fix out
- since I left). SVID says it's an unsigned type, and SunOS 4.1 is
- intended to be SVID-conformant, at least at the BA_OS and, I think,
- KE_OS level. If that causes problems with "tar" or "cpio" archives,
- well, you can't make even a SVID-compliant omelet without breaking a few
- eggs....
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- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 109
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