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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Brian Inglis wrote:

> DJGPP only returns and accepts 42 for uid or gid

No, it accepts the UID and GID of a single user--the current user.  This 
is a valid implementation of Posix for a single-user OS such as DOS.