Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/26/17:57:37
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
..
> >uid=42(dosuser), gid=42(dos)
> >ce qui me laisse pantois. Pas vous ?
> Sorry, but I don't speak French either. But yes, many functions which are
> meaningless on DOS, including getgid(), getuid(), etc., return 42 as the
> user or group ID. This maps to a user named `dosuser'. So of course this
> shows up in the `id' command. Rather clever, IMHO.
Why 42? is that because this is the meaning of life, etc (douglas adams'
book)?
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