[23720] trunk/base/src/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.c

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

Actually, Apple has always traditionally reserved uids < 500 for its  
own use.  We simply haven't passed 100 yet. :-)

- Jordan

On Apr 7, 2007, at 11:52 AM, source_changes at macosforge.org wrote:

> nextuid and nextgid now return the first uid/gid > 100 rather than  
> the max + 1
> This means that new users created with adduser are not visible on  
> the login screen.
> Also it was kinda silly to create a new user/group with id 502 when  
> 100-499 were available
>

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