cpio - segmentation violation

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1120 at servax0.essex.ac.uk> peter at essex.ac.uk	 (Allott P) writes:
>The problem is that some users have files on their areas with a uid of -2.

That NFS-induced modification to the concept of UID has caused numerous
problems.  AT&T UIDs are unsigned (i.e. nonnegative) integers, and AT&T
UNIX software relies on this.  (So did some BSD software.)  The whole
issue of NFS ID mapping has been a real mess.