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SubjectRe: High UID support for Linux
27-Nov-98 15:38 you wrote:
> pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) writes:

|>> H. Peter Anvin writes ("Re: High UID support for Linux"):
|>> > Followup to: <E0zioU5-0000tA-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
|>> > By author: pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie)
|>> > [snip - hack to get getpwuid(getuid()) to work.
|>> >
|>> > I don't think this is beneficial. Any uid/gid-aware program is going
|>> > to have to deal. There just isn't a way around it. Fortunately not
|>> > too many programs really care about uid/gid's.
|>>
|>> I strongly disagree. _Lots_ of programs care about _your_ home
|>> directory so they can look for configuration files and don't use uids
|>> for anything else.

> They will just use getenv("HOME"). No need for uid.

Great but what to do with already written programs ?




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