On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:31:05AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
This is one of those "the boat has already left the dock" situations. If this were going to happen, it would have to have happened in the early 1990s. There is no feasible way to make it happen now.
It's also a pointless endeavor, which is why it isn't a priority. In fact the trend is more toward ephemeral runtime allocation rather than hardcoding persistent IDs as more services/subsystems are designed to run in isolation. The motivation in this thread seems to simply be "I want to copy /etc/passwd around". Why? What is the actual goal, and what better (existing) mechanisms could achieve that goal?
