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To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
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Subject: Re: MAX_UID ?
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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 

> On 2000-Mar-13 13:14:40 +1100, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> wrote:
> >#define UID_MAX ((uid_t)0-1)
> ...
> >I can see the flaw in that straight away in that uid_t isn't available
> >in <sys/syslimits.h>
> 
> Not a problem.  C macros are just text expansions.  The `uid_t' isn't
> evaluated unless/until the macro is used - at which point uid_t must
> be available.

Uhh, yeah. It's the middle of the night here I obviously wasn't awake
when I said that :-)

Paul.


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