----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: qmail mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: var-qmail
>Racer X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think it would be really nice if Red Hat could guarantee a certain
subset
>> of the UID space available to packages like this that need predefined
UIDs.
>[...]
>> The space from 300-499 would be managed by Red Hat. Application
developers
>[...]
>> Any thoughts?
>
>Only the obvious: Linux != RedHat.
My apologies. I should know better than that.
It certainly doesn't have to be Red Hat managing the space. The shared
library mappings were managed by.. someone else, I forget who, but it
worked pretty well.
Someone mentioned this idea had been "shot down" already. Who shot it down
and why?
shag