Re: uid -1

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Neal H Walfield wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Since many funtions return -1 for unsuccessful uid lookups,
> it would seem to me to be a good idea to make a user corrosponding
> to this.  Such as in sush etc:
> 
> neal@hurd:~ $ sush
> bash-2.03$ whoami
> whoami: cannot find username for UID 4294967295
> bash-2.03$
> 
> Comments?

-1 is not a valid uid anymore, as it is also used as "do not change" in
chown() calls.

I am not sure what to do with the above error message, though.

Marcus