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Article #1316Re: POSIX, NFS, CPIO/TAR
From: Guy Harris
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 21:19
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 21:19
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From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris) >>IEEE Std 1003.1 defines "group ID" and "user ID" to be NON-NEGATIVE >>integers in Section 2.3. This is in conformance with existing practice >>that Sun gratuitously ignored in their NFS implementation. > >Hmmm. This could, indeed, cause problems. > >Who's going to change? All together now: "fixed in 4.1" (unless they've ripped the fix out since I left). SVID says it's an unsigned type, and SunOS 4.1 is intended to be SVID-conformant, at least at the BA_OS and, I think, KE_OS level. If that causes problems with "tar" or "cpio" archives, well, you can't make even a SVID-compliant omelet without breaking a few eggs.... Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 109
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!longway!std-unix From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: POSIX, NFS, CPIO/TAR Keywords: POSIX, NFS, CPIO/TAR Message-ID: <482@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 18 Dec 89 21:19:45 GMT References: <2587D93A.19FD@marob.masa.com> <7674@portia.Stanford.EDU> <474@longway.TIC.COM> <478@longway.TIC.COM> Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 18 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)