Hallo Clint!
Clint Adams schrieb am Donnerstag, den 24. Dezember 2009:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:47:10PM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > I have to add, this only affects cpio-2.9 from lenny. My C-Skills are a
> > little bit rusty, but the following patch seems to work for me:
>
> Oh, well, I'm afraid there's not much I can do for lenny but create an
> unofficial backport of 2.10. Would that help?
Yes, very much.
>
> > chrisbra t41:~/source/cpio/cpio-2.9/src [1081:1]% diff -Nu userspec.c{.old,}
> > --- userspec.c.old 2009-12-23 15:40:09.000000000 +0100
> > +++ userspec.c 2009-12-23 15:40:21.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
> > char *spec; /* A copy we can write on. */
> > struct passwd *pwd;
> > struct group *grp;
> > - char *g, *u, *separator;
> > + unsigned char *g, *u, *separator;
> > char *groupname;
>
> I'm confused; what is expecting those characters to be unsigned?
A far lines later, you'll find that piece of code:
f (!isnumber_p (u))
error_msg = _("invalid user");
and isnumber_p fails, because u was negative in my case.
regards,
Christian
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