From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 9 08:36:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12473 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:36:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12453 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:36:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA28040 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com(207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma028038; Thu Apr 9 08:35:14 1998 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA25798 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:35:13 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199804091535.IAA25798@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/include/pwd.h Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Terry Lambert >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