From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 19 00:51:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA19432 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 00:51:04 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA19404 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 00:50:56 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA02859; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 09:50:53 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA23001; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 09:50:52 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA29413; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 09:45:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511190845.JAA29413@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ranlib and ar broken (they arent) To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 09:45:10 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511182218.RAA01706@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Nov 18, 95 05:18:37 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 823 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Henrich wrote: > > 1 drwxrwxr-x 4 4294961071 4294967294 512 Aug 30 15:24 old_news/ > > A chown root.wheel old_news produces: > > 5:17pm dev1 [ROOT] chown root.wheel old_news > chown: old_news: File too large uriah # mkdir foo uriah # chown 4294961071:4294967294 foo uriah # ls -ld foo drwxr-xr-x 2 4294961071 4294967294 512 Nov 19 09:41 foo/ uriah # chown root:wheel foo uriah # ls -ld foo drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 19 09:41 foo/ uriah # exit ??? Is the above line the output of an ls -ldi? In this case, i'm curious about the leading `1'. i-node 1 is reserved and never allocated (i-node 2 is the root dir of a file system). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)