Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:58:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h Message-ID: <200105232058.QAA33257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200105232057.f4NKv2f28701@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200105232057.f4NKv2f28701@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Wed, 23 May 2001 13:57:02 -0700 (PDT), <phk@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
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