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Re: [PATCH v4] daemon: Set ownership of kept build directories to the ca
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Hartmut Goebel |
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Re: [PATCH v4] daemon: Set ownership of kept build directories to the calling user. |
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Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:34:16 +0100 |
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Am 23.12.2016 um 22:15 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic:
> Also, why use the magical value 0 for gid? Why not likewise (gid_t) -1 ?
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
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Hartmut Goebel
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