Re: What to do with too-large group ids?

[Kai Großjohann]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> The file-attributes documentation doesn't say that uid/gid can be cons
> pairs when uid/gid is higher than the integer limit, is that a bug?

The documentation appears to agree with the code: some numbers can be
conses, but uid/gid cannot.

I think I'll use -1 -- that's what Ange-FTP does.  Emacs is kind
enough to return -1 when parsing a too-large number already, so now I
only have to do a fix for XEmacs.  For that, I'll have to talk to some
other people, though :-)

Sorry for the line-noise,
kai
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