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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Bug in subroutine putpwent(Ultrix 3.0)
Message-ID: <2292@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 26 Jul 89 00:45:53 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The "official" version seems to be drifting towards the notion that uid's
>and gid's are really supposed to be unsigned short's, however that's unlikely
>work directly on systems using the sun derived kludge.

Actually, I expect that to be the case in SunOS 4.1 as well (i.e., that
UIDs and GIDs will be unsigned), with "nobody" becoming 65534 or
somesuch; if this makes it into a new NFSSRC distribution, presumably
DEC will pick it up at some point.

>> This version seems to be:
>> putpwent.c	4.1	(ULTRIX)	11/23/87
>
>Note that none of the system software actually uses putpwent, it's apparently
>the creation of some Sun completist.

Given that it says ULTRIX there, I don't see how you can conclude it's
"apparently the creation of some Sun completist".  In fact, it's the
creation of some AT&T completist; it came from System V, and presumably
both SunOS and Ultrix picked it up from there (I know SunOS did).