GIDD_ALLOC(1)

✨ NAME ✨

gidd_alloc — ok bestie, this is the one from the HTCondor Manual 💖 and what it does is: find a GID within the specified range which is not used by any process. that's it. that's the whole gig. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gidd_alloc min-gid max-gid

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe 💜 this program will scan the alive PIDs, looking for which GID is unused in the supplied, inclusive range specified by the required arguments min-gid and max-gid. note that "inclusive" bestie — both ends count, no cap. 🙈

upon finding one, it will add the GID to its own supplementary group list, and then scan the PIDs again expecting to find only itself using the GID. 👑

if no collision has occurred, the program exits, otherwise it retries. it's giving persistence, it's giving main character energy, it's literally just gonna keep going till it wins. 🔥

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🌈 GENERAL REMARKS 🌈

ngl this one's exclusive — this is a program only available for the Linux ports of HTCondor. 🐧✨

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🦋 EXIT STATUS 🦋

• 0 (zero) — slay, it worked, success ✨
• 1 (one) — it's not giving, failure 😭

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

HTCondor Team 🫶

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

1990-2026, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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and that's the page, babe 💖 this whole thing lives in the HTCondor Manual, dated Oct 16, 2026, and it's GIDD_ALLOC(1) in the manual-name department 🎀 go find yourself a GID, you got this ⭐🌸