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SubjectRe: ANNOUNCE: 32-bit UID patch for Linux 2.0, 2.2
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> Actually, what does UNIX98 say about UID length? Is it defined as 16,
> 32 or 64 bit?

None of the above :-) It merely says uid_t is a definition to hold UIDs:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/systypes.h.html

Having said that, <sys/types.h> on Solaris typedefs uid_t to be long
in a section labelled "POSIX and XOPEN Declarations".

Tet

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