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-rw-r--r--src/basic/util.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/util.c b/src/basic/util.c
index beec7cb7dd..86aacad307 100644
--- a/src/basic/util.c
+++ b/src/basic/util.c
@@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ int parse_uid(const char *s, uid_t* ret_uid) {
return -ERANGE;
if (!uid_is_valid(uid))
- return -ENXIO;
+ return -ENXIO; /* we return ENXIO instead of EINVAL
+ * here, to make it easy to distuingish
+ * invalid numeric uids invalid
+ * strings. */
if (ret_uid)
*ret_uid = uid;