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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Jake Burkholder wrote:
> 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.


Sendmail databases have the same problem (mkdb).  Might want to
coordinate with those people, if they already have a solution, or
if you really want to create a general solution (FWIW).

-- Terry