From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-09-06T00:48:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Bogus age value from Etc



--- Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for being late.  I'm flushing message queue.
> 
> In message "Re: Bogus age value from Etc"
>     on Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:19:04 +0900, Daniel
> Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> writes:
> 
> |Ruby 1.8.2
> |Solaris 10
> |
> |It looks like the "age" passwd value returned by
> Etc is bogus.
> 
> Hmm, I haven't seen any system with pw_age in passwd
> struct.
> I thought it was an integer value, but char* in
> reality, at least on
> Solaris 10, right?

Correct.  AFAIK it's a char* on all flavors of
Solaris.

Regards,

Dan


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