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From: hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: UIDs and GIDs
Keywords: versus Networking
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Date: 29 Jun 90 02:34:30 GMT
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From:  hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu

I think you take -2 with some degree of poetic license.  Obviously
if your system uses unsigned shorts, call it 0xfffe instead of -2.
The only problem I know is with some System V implementations that
completely disallow uid's with the sign bit on.

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