Erwann Chenede wrote: > Hi Darren, > > To sum up for the record : > - a bug/RFE will be log against ON to reserve 51 as the ID space for > SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot (Tim will log it) > - the package name is SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot and not (anymore) > TIMFzfs-auto-snapshot. > > Thanks, > > Erwann > > Darren J Moffat wrote: > > [...] >> My I suggest 51 as the reserved uid - the first person to work out how >> I come up with 51 I'll buy a beer for next time I meet them in person.
> As gdm is 50th reserved uid, the 51th is the next slot available for > the desktop project using reserved uid. Is that the reason or is it > something more cunning :) ? Much more cunning that that and has nothing to do with any existing reserved uid :-) Other rejected answers were that 51 is a palindrome in binary - which I didn't know at the time but would have been a very cool reason. -- Darren J Moffat
