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- From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Subject: /usr/include/pwd.h problem
- Message-ID: <Bu25qE.78v@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:32:38 GMT
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- Under IRIX 4.0.4, the pwent structure defined in /usr/include/pwd.h
- has a field for the user id declared as an unsigned short. That's fine,
- except the stock IRIX password file contains a uid of -2, which converts
- to 65534 in the structure because of that declaration.
-
- Is this fixed in the next release?
-
- -- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
- Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | This is a
- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | machine that
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