Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:13:45 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: endianess of /etc/pwd.db Message-ID: <99400.1051539225@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:06:38 CDT." <20030428120638.GA3289@madman.celabo.org>
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In message <20030428120638.GA3289@madman.celabo.org>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" writ es: >On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:26:20AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:17:41AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > >> > Kris ran into this problem: copying a /etc/pwd.db from one endianess >> > to another gave him really weird uid/gid numbers. >> > >> > The DB code itself is endianess-agnostic, so the first warning one >> > gets is the weird UID/GID. >> > >> > Should we make the endianess of this file explicit to prevent this >> > pit-fall for our users ? The cost would be less than epsilon. > >In case you didn't otherwise notice, this is done. I could be a bit worried about doubling the size of the file, but for a transistion period it does make sense. Great work! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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