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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5+ handle 32bit UID
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980126164412.14904S-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> from Jaye Mathisen at "Jan 26, 98 04:45:34 pm"
To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:20:52 -0800 (PST)
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Jaye Mathisen writes:
> or 31 bit?
> 
> >From looking at some tests over NFS, it looks like it certainly supports
> >65535, but I wanted to know if it was consistent everywhere...
> 
> IE, uid's of 100000+ are OK.

Yes, should work. I thought that NFS used 16 bit ids, so it may not
work for that.

-Archie

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