Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: 32-bit UID patch for Linux 2.0, 2.2 | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:31:33 +0100 | From | Tethys <> |
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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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