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- From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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- In article <743@longway.TIC.COM> mbrown@osf.org (Mark Brown) writes:
- >In 1003.1, "User ID" is defined as a positive integer (so is GID)...
- >Also, uid_t is defined as an arithmetic type (same for gid_t).
- >How does one handle (or can one handle) certain networking conventions that
- >use a "dummy" user ("nobody") and require a user id of -2 ?
- >Do these conflict as they seem, or am I missing something (always possible..)
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- Certain networking conventions are broken.
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- uid_t and gid_t have usually (always?) been considered unsigned shorts.
- Most architectures let them get away with it, barely. It is not a good
- idea, though.
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