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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:10:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   UIDs greater than 65535?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990217221041.jdp@polstra.com>

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Can anybody think of a reason why UIDs > 65535 wouldn't work under
FreeBSD?  They seem to work, and I can't find any reason why they
shouldn't.  Even the NFS protocol (though not necessarily all NFS
servers) seems to be able to accomodate 4-byte UIDs.

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
                                                            -- H. L. Mencken


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