Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 10:17:41 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: endianess of /etc/pwd.db Message-ID: <31398.1049876261@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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. -- 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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