endianess of /etc/pwd.db

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 9 01:17:43 PDT 2003


Kris ran into this problem:  copying a /etc/pwd.db from one endianess
to another gave him really weird uid/gid numbers.

The DB code itself is endianess-agnostic, so the first warning one
gets is the weird UID/GID.

Should we make the endianess of this file explicit to prevent this
pit-fall for our users ?  The cost would be less than epsilon.


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