Re: [Patch v2] daemon: Set ownership of kept build directories to the calling user.

[Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>]

Am 01.12.2016 um 01:01 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic:
> So I'd say to compare with (uid_t)-1 would be fine
>
>     if (settings.clientUid != (uid_t) -1) {
>         ...
>     }

Thanks for this tip, Danny. This made it work and I just posted the
updated patch.

> > And casting uid_t to unisgned int might return the same uid as "nobody".
> [...]
>
> (-1) in two-complement 16 bit integral encoding (which is technically not guaranteed to be used in C) would be 65535.

Ahh, well, yes. I'm not quite good on bit operations, esp. on
representations of negative numbers. Thanks to doing this right.

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Hartmut Goebel

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