also sprach dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> [2002.01.22.1646 +0100]:
> | > All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown
> | > (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1)
> |
> | that's -2 btw ;)
>
> Not if you use unsigned integers :-).
pfffffff.
cat << EOF > short_test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
unsigned short s = -2;
printf("%d\n", s);
return 0;
}
EOF
gcc -o short_test short_test.c
./short_test
65534
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