Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 May 1999 16:14:02 +0300 (EEST) | From | Nicholas Tufar <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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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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