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  1. From:  hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu
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  3. I think you take -2 with some degree of poetic license.  Obviously
  4. if your system uses unsigned shorts, call it 0xfffe instead of -2.
  5. The only problem I know is with some System V implementations that
  6. completely disallow uid's with the sign bit on.
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  8. Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 60
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