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Subject: RE: [PATCH] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:16:58 -0400
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On April 27, 2022 2:12 PM, Carlo Arenas wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:06 AM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
>> Results on NonStop: strtol("123456789012345678", &endptr, 10) returns
>4294967295 and *endptr == '\0' just beyond the last 8.
>
>Thanks and errno == ERANGE as POSIX requires, right?, the code
>(untested) I was planning to use instead looks like :
>
>static inline void extract_id_from_env(const char *env, uid_t *id) {
>        const char *real_uid = getenv(env);
>
>        /* discard any empty values */
>        if (real_uid && *real_uid) {
>                unsigned long extracted_id;
>                int saved_errno = errno;
>
>                errno = 0;
>                extracted_id = strtoul(real_uid, NULL, 10);
>                if (!errno)
>                        *id = (uid_t)extracted_id;
>                errno = saved_errno;
>        }
>        return 0;
>}

errno = 4034 (Value out of range), which is the ERANGE #define.
--Randall