Re: Issues with last Friday's CVS

[Martin Brecher]

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Chris B. Vetter wrote:
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|   :0> id nobody
|   uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody)
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| Yes, per definition / by default, 'nobody' has uid/gid 65534.
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| However, not everyone is using your box_TM so using -2 as an arbitrary
| value to "get the id of user nobody" is wrong. Plain and simple.
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|   :0> ps -faux | grep gdomap
|   4294967294 47897 0.0 0.4 3088 960 ?? Ss 9:45AM 0:00.01 gdomap
|
| 'nuff said.
|

Running Slackware 9.0...

$ id nobody
uid=99(nobody) gid=99(nogroup) groups=99(nogroup),98(nobody)


$ ps aux | grep gdomap
#-2       1528  0.0  0.0  2768  216 ?        S    Oct07   0:00 [gdomap]

$ lsof | grep gdomap
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 4294967294
[...]
gdomap    1528 42949672  mem    REG      34,10    56373     66034
/opt/GNUstep/System/Tools/gdomap
[...]

Doesn't look right to me.

Greetings,
Martin
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