Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:48:19 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No MAXUID ? Message-ID: <57250.933342499@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "30 Jul 1999 15:38:30 %2B0200." <xzpso661cmh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 30 Jul 1999 15:38:30 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > How many times do I have to go through this? Until I stuff a comment in the source that explains this. :-) > There is no "artificial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns > against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses > unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs. Would you be happy with changing things so that only one warning is generated? Something like "99999 > max_uid 65535: others may exist"? The current behaviour is quite annoying with large passwd files. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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