Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:07:18 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: endianess of /etc/pwd.db Message-ID: <20030409130718.GF78831@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <31398.1049876261@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <31398.1049876261@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Apparently, On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:17:41AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp said words to the effect of; > > 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. > Yes, please. Jake
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