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SubjectRe: sharing UIDs between Solaris and Linux
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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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