unsigned uid_t

[Moritz Schulte]

Hi,

i found out that tools like 'id' and 'whoami' display the [UG]ID
4294967295 for the Hurd nouser.

This is because the IDs are handled as unsigned ints; GNU Libc says:

 - Data Type: uid_t
     This is an integer data type used to represent user IDs.  In the
     GNU library, this is an alias for `unsigned int'.

But, get*id() are returning -1 (signed) (-> 4294967295 (unsigned)) for
the nouser.

Should that be fixed?  If yes, how? Should we use a signed uid_t or
would that violate a standard?

        moritz
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