From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 23 13:59: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E783D37B42C; Wed, 23 May 2001 13:58:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA33257; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:58:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:58:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200105232058.QAA33257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h In-Reply-To: <200105232057.f4NKv2f28701@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200105232057.f4NKv2f28701@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Robert, could you peek at this ? Seems still to be the case and I think > user aliasing is a risk here. This is a problem, and one of the reasons why using uids greater than 16 bits in width is still discouraged. It's one of the things which were on my plate for the giant header-file cleanup for which I am currently out of CFT. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message