Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:57:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>, <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109241056310.72490-100000@roam.ctron.com> In-Reply-To: <20010924095100.B18792@dan.emsphone.com>
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Thanks, for the correction.. I think I better go home, go back to sleep and start this day over again.. I have made countless other errors already. Bernie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- === Bernie Doehner === === Firmware Engineer Enterasys Networks, Inc. === === bdoehner@enterasys.com 35 Industrial Way === === Office: (603) 337-1315 Rochester, NH 03866 === On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:51:01 -0500 > From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> > To: Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com> > Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Dreamtime.net Inc. <clients@dreamtime.net>, > freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Symbolic Links > > In the last episode (Sep 24), Bernie Doehner said: > > I was going from the warning you get from vipw if you try to assign a > > UID greater than 64k (16 bits). > > > > I stand corrected, thanks. Even 32 bits doesn't get you to 1 million, > > but we are deviating from the original intent of this thread, about > > the maximum number of symbolic links in a dir. > > 32 bits gets you 4 billion. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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