Didi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for any violation of any mailing list rules, this is my first > patch to coreutils.
Hello! No violation ;-) Thanks for the report and patch. > On some systems, with AFS, if you call 'id' or 'groups' without a user > name parameter it will return a huge group number: > $ id -G > 500 1103556127 > > The same behavior applies to groups: > $ groups > ribalba id: cannot find name for group ID 1103556127 > 1103556127 > > Because of this I propose following patch : Unfortunately, we can't use that approach, since both id and groups have to work even when there isn't a user or group name (i.e., when getlogin returns NULL). Maybe you can find a way to distinguish (at run time) between the regular no-user-or-group-name case and your AFS nameless-huge-ID case. ... > The behavior is due to AFS creating a pseudo group in the kernel that > does not have a name. > > > Some information to the system I am using: > Linux mypc 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Mon Feb 4 10:15:50 CET 2008 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
