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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ 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
