Comment 4 for bug 1517214

Juerg is right. I actually took this problem to upstream's mailing list:

https://lists.err.no/pipermail/mpm-itk/2015-November/000958.html

Juerg's patch seems to unconditionally cap gid's and uid's to UINT_MAX, which I think is 65535 on all platforms. I am not sure how that's different from current behavior, though maybe I missed something.

Regardless, I think the limits need to be set differently on different architectures to keep the 32-bit compatibility around. At least I think that's upstream's intent.

I posted a patch which fixes the problem for me to that mailing list. No one has looked it over yet. I don't have a 32-bit system handy to test but the patch is pretty simple. I don't think upstream needs the patch because, by my inspection of the latest source code, they have already fixed the problem.