On Friday 08 August 2008 00:03:24 Cai Xianchao wrote:
 The error message is not appropriate when I try to set gid to
 negative. the value of "Unknown group:" should be the gid rather
 than "gid". There is the same problem in uids. 
OK, I tried to apply the patch and got:
patching file deprecated.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 6: const char *pair, int flags)
I eventually did the edits by hand since they were simple. Watch the word 
wrapping.  :)
Thanks for the patch !
-Steve