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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>  >The standard uid/group for nobody should be -2 -2 (65534, 65534).
>  
>  Even when (uid_t)-2 == 0xFFFFFFFEul ?

>That's why I added the follow on 16 bit numbers.  We're trying to be
>network compatible,  so we should stick to 16 bit uid/gid sign extension.

What about mount/mount_ufs.c, which defines DEFAULT_ROOTUID as -2 and
naively assigns it to a uid_t.  This nobody has been very large for
some time.

There may be some (buggy) programs that expect to get -2 when they
assign the uid to an int.

Bruce