On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:29:36AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| also sprach Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0848 +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 :-).
2**16 == 65536
so 65535 is the biggest number that a "guint16" (in glib terms) can
represent (0...65535 is 65536 unique numbers).
'nobody' is one less than the highest 16bit unsigned integer.
-D
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