On 06/05/09 15:42, Darren Reed wrote:
In putting together PSARC/2009/332 and looking at the changes required to libraries and installation, I'm being given a choice about whether or not the project number for "svc.inetd" is important.The man page for project(4) says this: projid The project's unique numerical ID (PROJID) within the system. The maximum value of the projid field is MAXPROJID. Project IDs below 100 are reserved for the use of the operating system. I suspect that this is a carryover from usernames, uids and /etc/passwd in that so far as I can tell, the project id's are not important in the same way that a uid is. Whilst it is convenient to have project numbers be the same everywhere, there's no operational requirement. Unlike files, where the uid is a property that can be saved/restored/copied, the project id for "user.root" could be different on every system and there would be no interoperability or behavioural problems.
Extended Accounting stores project ids only. Not having project ids consistent across system will make generating accounting reports across systems painful since one would need to resolve the project id in the accounting file to the project name on the originating system, instead of on the reporting system only.
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