From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 5 12:41:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA06164 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:41:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA06152 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA11341; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 22:37:02 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 22:37:02 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Jason Evans cc: Paul Griffith , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Monteiro?= , chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off-Topic Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jason Evans wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Griffith wrote: > > If I am correct all BSD systems should support up to 65536 GID. I think > > the GID is a 8 bit number so 0 to 65536 groups. I am not sure how it > > handles UID, but then again I yet to see a Unix system with over 64K users > > Uhh, I'm confused. > > 8 bits ==> 256 > 16 bits ==> 65536 > > Which do you mean? > All in all, aren't both UIDs and GIDs 32 bit numbers in FreeBSD? 2^32 > 4*1000*1000*1000 Where would you get all those users from? > Jason > > Jason Evans > Email: [jasone@canonware.com] > Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] > Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison] > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.