On Jul 3, 2005, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 04:42:40PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Erhm... But what about all those existing user bases introduced when >> only the range below 100 was reserved? My uid at the uni has been 404 >> since 1991. FWIW, it wasn't an HTTP error code back then, to the best >> of my knowledge; it was just the number right after 403. > How long ago was that? If I remember right, the default start number in Red > Hat Linux 4.2 was 500.... That's no use if you created the userbase on say SunOS 4.0. > But anyway, there's not enough room below 100, so something has to give. Which is exactly why making it configurable is a good idea IMHO. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
