From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T22:33:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21667] Re: [Bug #1068] Ruby Cannot Handle Some UIDs

On Jan 29, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Urabe Shyouhei wrote:

> 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.

Well, the OS is using negative UID's.  That's just a fact.  If we  
ignore that, then we know we are broken and that doesn't seem good.

James Edward Gray II