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> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai once stated:
> 
> => -rw-r--r--    1 4294967294  wheel  389120 Feb 14 23:54 pdksh.core.xclink
> 
> =this is exactly what I got when I tried to compile some things over NFS.
> =The created directory and files were also like this:
> =
> =1 drwxr-xr-x  3 4294967294  wheel  - 512 Feb 15 21:09 aout/
> =
> =funny, the same value. There is something left out very fundamentally
> =somewhere.
> 
> Just FYI. This number is 0xFFFFFFFE in hex... A search for this number
> through the sources does not bring anything under NFS itself, though the
> following may give a clue:

Remember that the "nobody" user is uid 65534 (0xfffe). The signed extension
of this to 32 bits is 0xfffffffe. Maybe you're seeing uid 0 being translated
to 65534 (due to NFS) and then sign extended.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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