From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 23 14: 5:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (beachchick.freebsd.dk [212.242.34.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C672B37B422; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4NL5Tm51657; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:05:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 16:58:55 EDT." <200105232058.QAA33257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:05:29 +0200 Message-ID: <51655.990651929@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <200105232058.QAA33257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: >< 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. Why can't we simply make the uid_t and gid_t ? Is there some silly SVR4 compatibility thing here ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message