[BusyBox] Minor problems

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Tue Jan 30 16:31:24 UTC 2001


On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:49:34AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Mon Jan 29, 2001 at 07:15:25PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> > > 2. I _think_ I built this copy with USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GRP = true,
> > >   but ls on an NFS mounted directory gives me:
> > > # ls -l /mnt/recycle 
> > > -rwxrwxr-x   1 ls: unknown uid 501
> > 
> > ls.c uses the my_getpwuid functions from utility.c.  I guess it
> > should be converted to the standard ones now that pwd_grp/ is
> > included.  A patch to fix both 1 and 2 is attached.
> 
> If you look in utility.c, the my_* password and group functions
> now use the standard interfaces internally.  And since they do 
> the error checking and pulling the needed string out from struct 
> passwd or struct group they do save some memory that way.

Should ls exit abnormally when it can't find the name associated
with a file's uid?  GNU ls prints the uid and continues.

Matt





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