Re: [Patch v2] daemon: Set ownership of kept build directories to the calling user.

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 01.12.2016 um 01:01 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic:
> So I'd say to compare with (uid_t)-1 would be fine
>
>     if (settings.clientUid != (uid_t) -1) {
>         ...
>     }

Thanks for this tip, Danny. This made it work and I just posted the
updated patch.

> > And casting uid_t to unisgned int might return the same uid as "nobody".
> [...]
>
> (-1) in two-complement 16 bit integral encoding (which is technically not 
> guaranteed to be used in C) would be 65535.

Ahh, well, yes. I'm not quite good on bit operations, esp. on
representations of negative numbers. Thanks to doing this right.

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