Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:05:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h Message-ID: <51655.990651929@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 16:58:55 EDT." <200105232058.QAA33257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <200105232058.QAA33257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: ><<On Wed, 23 May 2001 13:57:02 -0700 (PDT), <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > >> Robert, could you peek at this ? Seems still to be the case and I think >> user aliasing is a risk here. > >This is a problem, and one of the reasons why using uids greater than >16 bits in width is still discouraged. It's one of the things which >were on my plate for the giant header-file cleanup for which I am >currently out of CFT. Why can't we simply make the uid_t and gid_t ? Is there some silly SVR4 compatibility thing here ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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