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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: No MAXUID ? 
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:53:56 MST, Mike Smith wrote:

> It probably belongs in param.h, and you can probably safely calculate it
> as (uid_t)0 - 1;

Excellent.

Another question I should have asked in my original mail is this: are
there magical reasons why we should want pwd_mkdb to bleat for every
encountered UID greater that 65535 ?

Can you think of anything other than hysterical raisins why I shouldn't
bump that artificial limit to the new MAX_UID when that arrives?

Thanks,
Sheldon.


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