endianess of /etc/pwd.db
Jake Burkholder
jake at locore.ca
Wed Apr 9 06:06:55 PDT 2003
Apparently, On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:17:41AM +0200,
Poul-Henning Kamp said words to the effect of;
>
> Kris ran into this problem: copying a /etc/pwd.db from one endianess
> to another gave him really weird uid/gid numbers.
>
> The DB code itself is endianess-agnostic, so the first warning one
> gets is the weird UID/GID.
>
> Should we make the endianess of this file explicit to prevent this
> pit-fall for our users ? The cost would be less than epsilon.
>
Yes, please.
Jake
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