From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T00:45:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21639] Re: UID Too Big, A Bug?

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:45 PM, James Gray wrote:

> Is this a bug in Ruby?
>
>  $ sudo ruby -r etc -e 'nobody = Etc.getpwnam("nobody"); p nobody;  
> Process.uid = nobody.uid'
>  #<struct Struct::Passwd name="nobody", passwd="*", uid=4294967294,  
> gid=4294967294, gecos="Unprivileged User", dir="/var/empty", shell="/ 
> usr/bin/false", change=0, uclass="", expire=0>
>  -e:1:in `uid=': bignum too big to convert into `long' (RangeError)
>  	from -e:1

It looks like this was reported as a bug years ago:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/8897

I wonder why it has gone unfixed for so long.  I'll add it to the new  
tracker and see if it can get any attention there�

James Edward Gray II