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Problem with chown in fileutils-3.3

#184
From: Jeff Moskow
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 12:00
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The use of uid_t in lib/userspec.c is incompatable with the use of int in src/chown.c
and will cause problems on BIGENDIAN machines.  Here is my fix:

Jeff Moskow
jeff@rtr.com

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*** src/chown.c.orig	Thu Jul 23 14:38:56 1992
--- src/chown.c	Sat Aug  1 07:55:31 1992
***************
*** 96,103 ****
       int argc;
       char **argv;
  {
!   int user = -1;		/* New uid; -1 if not to be changed. */
!   int group = -1;		/* New gid; -1 if not to be changed. */
    int errors = 0;
    int optc;
    char *e;
--- 96,103 ----
       int argc;
       char **argv;
  {
!   uid_t user = -1;		/* New uid; -1 if not to be changed. */
!   gid_t group = -1;		/* New gid; -1 if not to be changed. */
    int errors = 0;
    int optc;
    char *e;
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From: jeff@mousse.rtr.COM (Jeff Moskow)
Subject: Problem with chown in fileutils-3.3
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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1992 12:00:45 GMT
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