On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Linda Walsh wrote: > I ran into a weird "symptom" -- not a bug in anything as near > as I can tell, just a weirdness. > > Everyone once in a while, when I do an "ls -l" on some groups > of files, I'll see a "group" of ??????. With "ls -ln", I see > the group has a value "4294967295".
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids> > Would it be misleading or incorrect to insert an entry in > /etc/group (maybe in mkgroup) mapping that value to "nogroup"? There may be a legitimate group named "nogroup". Besides, what's wrong with "????????" (it's actually 8 question marks)? > If we insert such things "manually", would it be useful if > "mkgroup" (and maybe mkpasswd) had some option to "merge" > non-conflicting entries into their output, or would that > undesirable for some reason? As someone who had to add non-Windows groups to /etc/group from time to time, I'd say it would be a useful capability, but that would require mkgroup to read /etc/group rather than just dumping groups to standard output... You might be better off creating a merge_group tool of some sort that does the merge for you (i.e., call "mkgroup | merge_group /etc/group" instead of "mkgroup > /etc/group"). Again, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
