>
> > On a Mac that used LDAP, user ids and groups are 'long':
> > henri.biestro@L-HBIESTRO-1 commons-compress % id
> > uid=1447288081(henri.biestro) gid=1024222515
>
> Didn't know that.
>
Neither did I!
>
> Are there any tests that actually use the uid/gid of the current user?
> Compress will no read them by itself, so the only place things could
> fail was if we used native tar to create an archive. Is there such a
> test? If so we could try to adapt the test in question.
>
Any test based on creating/reading a file from what I gather; we read the
uid/gid from the file attributes (posix/unix). Another mitigation could be
modifying failForBigNumbers to reset uid/gid (aka set to 0L or nobody's id?)
instead of failing when they are problematic for the chosen TAR format.
Henrib
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