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Date:	Sat, 8 May 2004 00:10:41 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: ncftp: Who are you?
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On May  7 14:59, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >78843-13307=65536
> >
> >That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been rebuilt under 
> >1.5.x to become 64 bit clean.
> 
> This is interesting. So you are saying, since ncftp is not 64 bit, and 
> because my userid > 65536 that ncftp maps my uid incorrectly and cannot 
> find me in /etc/passwd?

32 bit clean in terms of uids and gids.  The switch from 1.3.x to
1.5.x changed more than just one datatype size.


Corinna

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