On Fri, Apr 04, 1997 at 02:49:07PM -0500, Rick Byers wrote:
> AFAIK, all the uid and gid stuff was now 32 bit - i.e. 4
> billion... I'm pretty sure the filesystem has 32 bit fields, but I'm not
> sure how much of the rest of the tree is designed to work with 32 bit
> uid/gids. uid_t (the type for user id's) is an unsigned int, so there
> shouldn't be any problems...

There are several places in the userland programs where the UID and GID
values are checked against 32767 or 65535 (I think it was 32767).  UID's
over 65535 will NOT work unless these limits are changed.  Hm.. maybe I
should look into this sometime.. but first I should update to -current
on some machine. :-/

  -jm


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