X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:11:18 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches Message-ID: <20090321101118.GV9322@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090319182945.GA9322@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 20 14:39, Julio Emanuel wrote: > Answering to myself: after some source code analysis, I've arrived to > this tiny function in misc.c: > > gboolean > resolve_user(const char *user, uid_t *uid) > { > struct passwd *pw; > > *uid = 0; > if (*user) > return FALSE; > > pw = getpwnam(user); > if (pw) > { > *uid = pw->pw_uid; > } > else > { > gchar *endptr; > > *uid = strtol(user, &endptr, 0); > if (*endptr) > return FALSE; > } > return TRUE; > } Good catch. I will send this upstream as well, if it hasn't been already fixed. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/