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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 1997 22:23:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp>
To:        dmaddox@scsn.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: `find . -nogroup` doesn't work?
Message-ID:  <199704020623.WAA09717@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199704020459.XAA00487@cola134.scsn.net> from "Donald J. Maddox" at Apr 1, 97 11:59:53 pm

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Donald J. Maddox wrote:
> 
> 
>     I was attempting to use find(1) to locate files/dirs on
> my system that have bogus owners/groups, but it appears
> that the '-nogroup' and '-noowner' options don't work..
> 
>     Below is a partial listing of the files in my ghostscript
> fonts dir.  You will notice that there are a number of entries
> with unknown owners/groups: 

This is a libc problem.  The user_from_{uid,gid} routines returned
the wrong value when a non-existent user was in their internal
caches.  I just fixed it in rev 1.5 of libc/gen/pwcache.c.
--
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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