[BusyBox] Patch for id with invalid username

Ken Chalmers chalmers at norscan.com
Thu Jul 27 21:43:44 UTC 2000


Here's a patch for id (requires patching id.c & utility.c) that allows 
it to detect and print an error if you give an invalid username.  Note 
that because of the way the information is passed, if you ever have a 
user with a gid of (2^32)-1, they'll be told they don't exist.  
Unlikely that one will ever have 4 billion groups on an embedded 
system, though :)  

I don't even know if this kind of error checking is something people 
consider important, but it only adds a few bytes so I just figured I'd 
put it up for interest's sake.

The patches are against the current (as of Jul 27 2000) CVS source.

	-Ken

-- 
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