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- From: Doug Gwyn <uunet!smoke.brl.mil!gwyn>
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- In article <7674@portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
- > The POSIX 1003.1 standard says that the types used for user and group
- > IDs (uid_t and gid_t, respectively) are to be `arithmetic types'. An
- > implementation or application that assumes that that the values are
- > always positive is broken.
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- RONG. IEEE Std 1003.1 defines "group ID" and "user ID" to be NON-NEGATIVE
- integers in Section 2.3. This is in conformance with existing practice
- that Sun gratuitously ignored in their NFS implementation.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 101
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