2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 43a77d4a58..39082a5d1b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ Fri Mar 13 09:30:12 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <[email protected]>
 
 	* bignum.c (bigfixize): zero length Bignum is 0.
 
+Fri Mar 13 09:17:12 2009  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <[email protected]>
+
+	* lib/fileutils.rb (FileUtils#fu_get_gid): stringify group
+	  argument before making regexp match.  [ruby-dev:38155]
+
 Fri Mar 13 08:06:48 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <[email protected]>
 
 	* util.c (rv_strdup): macro to duplicate nul-terminated string.
diff --git a/lib/fileutils.rb b/lib/fileutils.rb
index f2302703be..6124f29894 100644
--- a/lib/fileutils.rb
+++ b/lib/fileutils.rb
@@ -987,6 +987,7 @@ module FileUtils
 
     def fu_get_gid(group)   #:nodoc:
       return nil unless group
+      group = group.to_s
       if /\A\d+\z/ =~ group
       then group.to_i
       else Etc.getgrnam(group).gid