Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: High UID support for Linux | Date | Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:09:06 +0800 | From | David Luyer <> |
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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...)
David.
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