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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:07:18 -0400
From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: endianess of /etc/pwd.db
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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