cpio - segmentation violation

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Wed Jun 28 05:45:26 AEST 1989


>That NFS-induced modification to the concept of UID has caused numerous
>problems.

There's nothing about NFS that requires that "nobody" be a negative UID;
I suspect future SunOS releases, and the NFS source releases derived
from them, will follow 4.xBSD and S5 and have unsigned UIDs with
"nobody" becoming 65534 or something like that.

>The whole issue of NFS ID mapping has been a real mess.

Separate issue(s): 1) RFS-style mapping has, I think, been implemented
by Cray, and 2) RFS also has, I think, the same notion of a "nobody" UID.



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