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To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
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Hi,

On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:34:16 +0100
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> wrote:

> The "magic value" for gid is -1, too, as you can see in
> nix/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc.
> 
> gid 0 is not used as a magic value. As you can read in the comment, the
> test just prohibits changing the group to "root":
> 
>     settings.clientGid != 0 ? settings.clientGid : -1

Ah, ok then.

Sorry for the noise...