[When uid_t and gid_t change, it will be useless for libc4/5 users]
>
> Unless, of course, they rewrite libc to take advantage of these new
> system calls.
>
Not that easy... the datatypes themselves would have to change, which
means the old binaries would be useless. And at that point, they
might as well just switch to glibc.
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