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SubjectRe: Migrating to larger numbers
Erm...
(2^32)=4294967296

On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 04:14:02PM +0300, Nicholas Tufar wrote:
>
> On 27 May 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Okay, 2.3 is out; it's time to get some fundamental data types
> > expanded:
> >
> > REQUIRED:
> >
> > uid_t, gid_t: 32 bits minimum, 32 bits probably OK.
>
> Some ISPs and mail servers may have more than 65536 users on one system.
> I would propose to make uid_t and gid_t 64 bits.
>
>
> Nicholas
>
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