From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T23:04:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21669] Re: [Bug #1068] Ruby Cannot Handle Some UIDs

On Jan 29, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Rocky Bernstein wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:33 AM, James Gray  
> <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> I am not sure one can make that assertion.

I feel pretty confident in my assertion.  Just to be totally clear, it  
was:  my OS is using negative UID's and Ruby isn't handling that  
well.  The first half is proven by a look at my /etc/passwd, where I  
do see negative UID's.  I feel this thread proves the second half.

James Edward Gray II