group "name" for numberic value 2**32-1?

[Linda Walsh]

I ran into a weird "symptom" -- not a bug in anything as near
as I can tell, just a weirdness.

Everyone once in a while, when I do an "ls -l" on some groups
of files, I'll see a "group" of ??????.  With "ls -ln", I see
the group has a value "4294967295".  Would it be misleading
or incorrect to insert an entry in /etc/group (maybe in mkgroup)
mapping that value to "nogroup"?

If we insert such things "manually", would it be useful if
"mkgroup" (and maybe mkpasswd) had some option to "merge"
non-conflicting entries into their output, or would that
undesirable for some reason?

-linda


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