On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:42:06PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > getpwuid(-1) correctly returns 0, since there is no passwd entry. This > > causes screen to fail. What's the Right Way to fix this? Should the > > Hurd add a passwd entry for uid -1 so that these programs run correctly? > > This seems like a reasonable thing to have in the Debian/Hurd base passwd > file.
I don't understand where this -1 is coming from. Will run screen under the anonymous user? The getuid() returns -1 for such processes. We have an entry in /etc/passwd for the login user, with uid 100. Maybe we should change that to -1? Then there is the problem that you can't chown to -1 (as -1 means skip that). I am not sure what this means, though. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
