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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:51:01 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Symbolic Links
Message-ID:  <20010924095100.B18792@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109240959050.72305-100000@roam.ctron.com>
References:  <20010923232807.14C7A38FF@overcee.netplex.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109240959050.72305-100000@roam.ctron.com>

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In the last episode (Sep 24), Bernie Doehner said:
> I was going from the warning you get from vipw if you try to assign a
> UID greater than 64k (16 bits).
> 
> I stand corrected, thanks. Even 32 bits doesn't get you to 1 million,
> but we are deviating from the original intent of this thread, about
> the maximum number of symbolic links in a dir.

32 bits gets you 4 billion.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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