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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:08:34 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Vitali Malicky <life@zone3000.net>
Cc:        "Questions FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Number of groups
Message-ID:  <3F004462.1030609@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <001201c33f0d$362b7bd0$1501010a@zone3000.net>
References:  <001201c33f0d$362b7bd0$1501010a@zone3000.net>

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Vitali Malicky wrote:
> I would like to make it unambiguously clear for me how many groups does
> FreeBSD support?

The header file suggests the number is large (around 4 billion):

typedef        u_int32_t       gid_t;          /* group id */

...but the traditional limit was 65000 or so (short/int16).

-- 
-Chuck




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