From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 11 20:30:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98BB37BC70 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA03014; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA49807; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:30:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003120430.UAA49807@vashon.polstra.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Subject: Re: MAX_UID ? In-Reply-To: <38CAD957.3C839375@originative.co.uk> References: <38CAD957.3C839375@originative.co.uk> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <38CAD957.3C839375@originative.co.uk>, Paul Richards wrote: > > I think we need a MAX_UID and a MAX_GID to perform checks like this. > Anyone got any objections to adding them to /usr/include/limits.h ? They must not go into . That header file is defined by the ANSI/ISO C standard. The standard doesn't permit polluting the namespace with extra stuff. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message