Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > P.S.: Why is there a need to define ILLEGAL_GID? It > > is never used to set a value. > > It's used in chown_worker() to check against gid -1 on input. O.K, it's used to check against -1, but -1 is never used as a reserved value. In other words, why is the largest possible gid value forbidden? Pierre