(Fuser_uid, Fuser_real_uid): If UID as EMACS_INT is negative, produce

a float value.

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 8812516e41c..1f95b2846d5 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-03-20  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* editfns.c (Fuser_uid, Fuser_real_uid): If UID as EMACS_INT is
+	negative, produce a float value.
+
+	* dired.c (make_uid, make_gid): New functions.
+	(Ffile_attributes): Use them to avoid negative UID and GID.
+
 2009-03-20  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 
 	* keyboard.c (Fcurrent_idle_time): Reflow docstring.
diff --git a/src/editfns.c b/src/editfns.c
index cfce1f2add6..aac670bb35b 100644
--- a/src/editfns.c
+++ b/src/editfns.c
@@ -1319,23 +1319,33 @@ This ignores the environment variables LOGNAME and USER, so it differs from
 
 DEFUN ("user-uid", Fuser_uid, Suser_uid, 0, 0, 0,
        doc: /* Return the effective uid of Emacs.
-Value is an integer or float, depending on the value.  */)
+Value is an integer or a float, depending on the value.  */)
      ()
 {
   /* Assignment to EMACS_INT stops GCC whining about limited range of
      data type.  */
   EMACS_INT euid = geteuid ();
+
+  /* Make sure we don't produce a negative UID due to signed integer
+     overflow.  */
+  if (euid < 0)
+    return make_float ((double)geteuid ());
   return make_fixnum_or_float (euid);
 }
 
 DEFUN ("user-real-uid", Fuser_real_uid, Suser_real_uid, 0, 0, 0,
        doc: /* Return the real uid of Emacs.
-Value is an integer or float, depending on the value.  */)
+Value is an integer or a float, depending on the value.  */)
      ()
 {
   /* Assignment to EMACS_INT stops GCC whining about limited range of
      data type.  */
   EMACS_INT uid = getuid ();
+
+  /* Make sure we don't produce a negative UID due to signed integer
+     overflow.  */
+  if (uid < 0)
+    return make_float ((double)getuid ());
   return make_fixnum_or_float (uid);
 }