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Date:      Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/include/pwd.h
Message-ID:  <199804091535.IAA25798@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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>From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
>Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 03:08:47 +0000 (GMT)

>> Does anybody know why the uid and gid field here are int's?  (Looks
>> like hystorical raisons, as they haven't been changed since 4.4Lite).

>History.  The value of "nobody" on old SunOS systems was "-1".

Quibble:  it was -2 (65534).

david
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