From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: smiley@icebubble.org
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
References: <86zkecbc5d.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <20111229004856.731689ce@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:20:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20111229004856.731689ce@gmail.com> (David du Colombier's message
	of "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:48:56 +0100")
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L,
	9pserve
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David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> writes:

> The problem you are encountering is that v9fs doesn't translate
> uid/gid strings back to their numeric equivalent in /etc/passwd.
> Since Unix doesn't know how to handle these strings, it falls
> back to -1.

I had suspected that.  However, the uid/gid value being displayed is not
-1.  It's -2.  Maybe that's what threw me.  Perhaps, somewhere, there's:

#define EDRIVECRAZY -2

> Forget about 9p2000.u, it's deprecated.

IIRC, the RFC for it didn't indicate deprecated status.  (Perhaps IETF
could use an update.)  Assuming it has been deprecated, with what has
9p2000.u been replaced?

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