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 -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 401-0168 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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