At 06:45 PM 11/29/2002 +0100, you wrote: Hello Corinna
>I'm sorry, I just typed the first idea and didn't check my thoughts >for correctness. The correct implementation would be: OK. But, now that I am staring at it, we will have problems with 32 bit uids > 0x8000000, except if they are entered as negative numbers. This is from the opengroup: If the correct value is outside the range of representable values, LONG_MAX or LONG_MIN is returned (according to the sign of the value), and errno is set to [ERANGE]. Pierre
