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To: Ayan George <ayan@kiwi.datasys.net>
Cc: Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: UID Limits
References: <199905261252.IAA10076@kiwi.datasys.net>
From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:09:55 +0200
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Ayan George <ayan@kiwi.datasys.net> writes:
> Yes, pwd_mkdb compares the UID with USHRT_MAX.  I wonder if there
> is a macro that defines the maximum GID and UID like:

It's just a warning which was put there because some software
incorrectly stores UIDs in unsigned short ints rather than uid_ts and
thus does not grok large UIDs.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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