Hi, "Alan Curry" <pacman...@kosh.dhis.org> skribis:
> Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= writes: >> >> OTOH, on POSIX-conforming systems (which includes GNU/Linux, so it may >> be the majority of systems in use), -1 may well be a valid UID/GID. > > That's a bizarre statement. > > 3.428 User ID > > A non-negative integer It’s always non negative since glibc defines it as unsigned (see __UID_T_TYPE in typesizes.h.) I really meant 2^32 - 1. Thanks, Ludo’.