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

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