Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> I think too that it will help to promote SID-aware getXbyY functions
> that could be standardized. We plan to work on those, eventually, but
> perhaps our priority for those should be higher?
I would be interested to know what happens if e.g. star tried to archive files
with such UID's.
What will getpwuid(uid) return?
Will strlen(pw->pw_name) > 32?
What happens if someone unpacks such an archive on another machine?
J?rg
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