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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:52:45 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com>, "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Symbolic Links 
Message-ID:  <23710000.1001335965@lobster.originative.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010924050337.96D8539F0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
References:   <20010924050337.96D8539F0@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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--On Sunday, September 23, 2001 22:03:37 -0700 Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
wrote:

> Terry Lambert wrote:
>> Peter Wemm wrote:
>> > > Do you intend to have multiple users share UIDs?
>> > > 
>> > > As far as I know, UIDs under BSD are only 16 bits wide, which gets
>> > > you to 64K, not 1 million.
>> > 
>> > This is incorrect.  uid/gid are 32 bit on FreeBSD.
>> 
>> So the NFS and quota code been converted to 32 bits?
> 
> No.  It always has been 32 bit in FreeBSD 2.x and beyond.

In practice though there are parts of the system that don't work with 32
bit uids.


Paul Richards
FreeBSD Services Ltd
http://www.freebsd-services.com

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