Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:47:08 -0500 (EST) | From | Elliot Lee <> | Subject | Re: time stamp resolution |
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > At some point we need to have a flag day, and its probably best we have > > > a single libc6, 32bit uid/gid, higher timer resolution, >256 fd flag day > > > somewhere before 2.2 > > > > > > > * 32 or 64-bit dev_t > > * 64-bit off_t? > > * 64-bit time_t? > > > > Anything else? > > 32-bit pid_t > 32-bit uid_t, gid_t (note these types arent always used right throughout > kernelspace)
Perhaps the ability to have an (almost) infinite number of supplementary groups assigned to a user. Yes, I know NFS doesn't support this, but at least libc & the kernel could.
I'd say a perusal of /usr/include/limits.h, and #include'd files, would aid in finding limits that could use to be raised.
-- Elliot
A: "Talk about stupidity!" B: "Who, you?" A: "No, me!"
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