>> This would not be too hard if dbopen()/DB would provide a way to find
>> out the endiannes of the database.
>
>Better solutions would be to either use network byte order all keys, or
>use ASCII keys instead of binary keys.  The problem with any solution
>is that you still need to keep native byte-order keys to support older
>statically linked programs.
>
>And yes, I agree that not knowing the endianness of the database is a
>bit of a pain...

my pr, my solution, and now...my two cents.

i was particularly amused at the time to see that even files owned by
root were shown as owned by 0.  so...how exactly are uids stored in
the file?  i always thought the little and big endian byte order
representations of 0 were 0, regardless of the host endianness.

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