Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: High UID support for Linux | Date | 1 Dec 1998 17:26:45 GMT |
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Followup to: <199812010309.LAA03283@typhaon.ucs.uwa.edu.au> By author: David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I missed the start of this thread, but... glibc already uses 4-byte UIDs. > This is a trauma my passwd gdbms and various hash functions have already gone > through, to widen the field width, even though the extra 2 bytes can't be > used yet. People who want libc5 can stick with old kernels too - glibc is > ready AFAIK for high UID support already, people have already had to modify > programs to make them work with it, so userspace shouldn't be given as a > reason to hold the kernel back. (though, if nobody == -2 with high UIDs, > that will really kill the size of quota files if they're still not allowed > holes...) >
Yes, we already discussed all that.
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