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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:24:10PM +0000, Dr R.S. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Quentin Garnier wrote:
>=20
> >On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:57:51PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> >>Quentin Garnier wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:50:14PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> >>>>hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>attached diff adds a "uid" keyword translation for magic symlinks.
> >>>>
> >>>>any objections?
> >>>
> >>>s/16/LOGIN_NAME_MAX/
> >>
> >>why?
> >
> >1. raw numbers like this are wrong.
> >2. the best example of 1. is that LOGIN_NAME_MAX is 17.
> >3. someone might wish to run a system with a different LOGIN_NAME_MAX,
> >  for whatever reason (although it's not recommended, and not made
> >  easy either).
>=20
> But unless I'm mistaken, the code below will substitute the numeric UID
> (as a string of ASCII digits).  And trying to do a numeric UID to login

Hum, right.  I was mislead by the "16", which in that case is a bit
much (UID_MAX is 10 digit long).

1. still holds, then.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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