Jurgen Defurne wrote: > enscript: cannot find password for uid=45056: No error > > My generated passwd file however, contains 176128, not 45046. > > By replacing the former uid with the latter, the problem is solved. > > However, should this still be necessary ? I thought that a long > time ago this problem was solved ?
176128 modulus 2**16 equals 45046. So indeed it would seem that what you're seeing is a symptom of using an unsigned short for uid_t instead of unsigned long. It looks like preliminary support for 32 bit uid_t began around 2002-02-09: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2002-q1/msg00131.html>. The release notes for 1.3.11 mentions this as well on 2002-05-23: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-06/msg00012.html>. I don't know when "the switchover" actually happened and uid_t actually officially became unsigned long. But the enscript binary is dated 2002-08-25, which very well could have been prior to that time. So probably just rebuilding enscript without any other changes would fix the problem. Brian -- 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/
