From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T18:43:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21666] Re: [Bug #1068] Ruby Cannot Handle Some UIDs

Ondrej Bilka wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:53:38AM +0100, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:23:48 +0900,
>> Ondrej Bilka wrote in [ruby-core:21642]:
>>> Any reason why not handle UID and GID as signed?
>> Because they are defined as unsigned on that platform.
> This can be ignored. It would only display incrorectly UIDs > 2000000000 

Out of curiousity, on what basis you can believe that display (and ignore your
header instead)?  I'd wather ignore that display and believe what header says
if I had such OS.