Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 22:37:02 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Cc: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Monteiro?= <jm@pluriproj.pt>, chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off-Topic Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971205223542.9237A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205111310.20201D-100000@paladio>
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On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jason Evans wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Griffith wrote: > > If I am correct all BSD systems should support up to 65536 GID. I think > > the GID is a 8 bit number so 0 to 65536 groups. I am not sure how it > > handles UID, but then again I yet to see a Unix system with over 64K users > > Uhh, I'm confused. > > 8 bits ==> 256 > 16 bits ==> 65536 > > Which do you mean? > All in all, aren't both UIDs and GIDs 32 bit numbers in FreeBSD? 2^32 > 4*1000*1000*1000 Where would you get all those users from? > Jason > > Jason Evans > Email: [jasone@canonware.com] > Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] > Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison] > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.
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