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  1. Bug #216358
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 216358

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 216358] Re: Samba crashes repeatedly to assert_uid

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:39:53AM -0000, Paul Dufresne wrote:
> I now tend to think this is caused by the -1 not being casted to appropriate type in:
> setresgid(-1,gid,-1);
> and in:
> assert_uid(-1, uid);
> in lib/sec_util.c as I said in bug #314657 causing problems on 64 bits
> machines.

Absolutely not. You don't have to cast integer types when passing them as
function arguments, you just have to have a proper function prototype -
which Samba has for all functions it uses. This can be confirmed by
grepping for warnings in the build logs.

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