Negative UID in acct

[Ron Stanonik]

The negative uid also makes for large accounting files.  Yes, most of the
file is just a big hole between your last uid and 64K, but files with
large holes are suprises waiting to happen.  If you copy the file, or
restore after a crash, voila, filesystem full.  We gave nobody a small
positive uid (eg, 98).

Ron
Ron Stanonik
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