Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Gerald W. Carter wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> > 
> > >  Or are they like
> > > 	Unix uids and gids, separate and each populated
> > > 	starting with zero?
> > 
> > what do you mean by this?
> > 
> 
> For example, root user has a uid of 0 and the root ( or wheel ) group has
> a gid of 0.  These are totally difference number spaces.  I think this is
> what he means. 

ok ta for clarification jerry.  no they are not different number spaces:
user rids and group rids are... oh what's the mathematical term.
unique-in-the-same-number-space.

luke