@ub & @cb issues

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:44:52PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Jay Ashworth cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:28:40PM -0400, Tim Fischer wrote:
> > This is a pretty weird one.  For some users, when I have *@cb or *@ub on a
> > screen, report or browse, instead of showing the user id (sueb or dz - no
> > more than 3 characters) I get #-552 or something similar.  Has anyone seen
> > this before?
> > 
> > I'm not really sure what kind of info to include - I'm on Solaris 9 running
> > FP 5.0.13D4.  Happens in d and rreport/clerk.
> 
> I rather strongly suspect that Solaris permits unsigned shorts for
> UID's, and your filePro does not... and that you have users with UID's
> higher than 32767.

Solaris 5.7:

/usr/include/sys/types.h:typedef        int     uid_t;                  /*
UID type             */

No idea what they're doing in newer versions.  I note that they updated
this from a long and have the long marked as "historical" in the comments.

What you said certainly would make sense for the negative number presented
though, wouldn't it?

mark->
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