Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:27:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UIDs greater than 65535? Message-ID: <199902200027.RAA14243@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990217221041.jdp@polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Feb 17, 99 10:10:41 pm
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> Can anybody think of a reason why UIDs > 65535 wouldn't work under > FreeBSD? They seem to work, and I can't find any reason why they > shouldn't. Even the NFS protocol (though not necessarily all NFS > servers) seems to be able to accomodate 4-byte UIDs. 65536 in an unsigned short is -1 is "nobody". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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