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- From: mbrown@osf.org (Mark Brown)
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- In 1003.1, "User ID" is defined as a positive integer (so is GID)...
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- Also, uid_t is defined as an arithmetic type (same for gid_t).
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- How does one handle (or can one handle) certain networking conventions that
- use a "dummy" user ("nobody") and require a user id of -2 ?
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- Do these conflict as they seem, or am I missing something (always possible..)
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- The Ugly (617) 621-8981 | POSIX 1003.1-1988
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 57
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