Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:09:55 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Ayan George <ayan@kiwi.datasys.net> Cc: Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID Limits Message-ID: <xzpn1yk3qkc.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Ayan George's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 08:52:26 -0400 (EDT)" References: <199905261252.IAA10076@kiwi.datasys.net>
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Ayan George <ayan@kiwi.datasys.net> writes: > Yes, pwd_mkdb compares the UID with USHRT_MAX. I wonder if there > is a macro that defines the maximum GID and UID like: It's just a warning which was put there because some software incorrectly stores UIDs in unsigned short ints rather than uid_ts and thus does not grok large UIDs. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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