On Monday, November 28, 2016 10:42:54 AM EST Alec Warner wrote: > > Generally speaking as a fellow who maintained thousands of systems (many of > which ran various operating systems.) > > You cannot rely on all OS vendors to synchronize uid / gid. You cannot even > rely on some single vendors to synchronize uid / gids between releases of > their own products.
I believe the main reason such is the case is a lack of any such list or database for others to adhere to. Once again an area Gentoo could be leading. Had Gentoo done this years ago others might have adopted. IMHO it is something that should be a part of LSB. If not POSIX in general. One cannot really change the past or current state of things. But can make the future better. For now who cares about other OS or distros. If Gentoo gets its house in order others may follow. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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