[Bug 196929] ar: fatal: Numeric user ID too large

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--- Comment #2 from napetrov <nikolay.a.petrov at intel.com> ---
GNU ar just store first 6 characters with no errors:

[root at BSD ~]# echo 123 > tst.txt
[root at BSD ~]# chown napetrov tst.txt
[root at BSD ~]# ls -anl tst.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 11299695  0  4 Dec 10 14:15 tst.txt
[root at BSD ~]# /usr/local/bin/ar -rc test.a tst.txt
[root at BSD ~]# /usr/local/bin/ar -V
GNU ar (GNU Binutils) 2.25
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
[root at BSD ~]# strings test.a
!<arch>
tst.txt/        1418195726  1129960     100644  4         `
[root at BSD ~]# cat test.a | od -c
0000000    !   <   a   r   c   h   >  \n   t   s   t   .   t   x   t   /
0000020                                    1   4   1   8   1   9   5   7
0000040    2   6           1   1   2   9   9   6   0
0000060    1   0   0   6   4   4           4
0000100            `  \n   1   2   3  \n
0000110

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