Messages in this thread | | | From | (Peter Benie) | Subject | Re: sharing UIDs between Solaris and Linux | Date | Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:41:29 +0000 |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o writes ("Re: sharing UIDs between Solaris and Linux"): > From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:22:49 +0100 (MET) > > > Is there any way I can work around this? Am I correct that to convert > > linux's uid to long I'd have to recompile the kernel and all the user > > programs as well? And I don't know if this would work at the end, either. > > There's space reserved in ext2fs for the high 16-bits of UID and GID. > It's just simply a matter of implementing support for them.
How likely is it likely that 2.2 will have support for 32bit UIDs?
Peter
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