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No, Linux devs...

• jstanley 8y ago
  No, systemd devs...
  • danudey 8y ago
    qmail was written in the mid-90's, and all of the UIDs it would run as were compiled in. Meaning that if one of your mail users was UID 650 at compile time, the value of 650 would be compiled into the binary and it would always (and only) run that binary as that UID; if it didn't match up, it would fail. There were a lot of things about qmail that were outright stupid and awful, but not being able to port binaries between systems without a lot of checking was one of my favourites.