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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1278 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6014 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: FreeBSD, NetBSD coexist and share filesystem! References: <CExLov.3At@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <CEy3zt.1Lp@festival.ed.ac.uk> <CEyAos.7Kx@veda.is> Message-ID: <CF3Ho5.Jn2@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 13:33:40 GMT Lines: 21 In article <CEyAos.7Kx@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: >>Unfortunately a number of common utilities (bash, emacs, ls) can't be >>properly shared because of the changed dbm format. Anything that >>converts a uid to a username is likely to lose. >This is patently untrue. The format changed between NetBSD 0.8 and 0.9. The symptom is that programs will be unable to find usernames (ls prints numeric values instead, emacs can't find ~user, etc). Perhaps one of the NetBSD people could give a better description of what changed. If as you say FreeBSD uses the same format, they must have changed too. -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough