Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:06:13 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Yann Ramin <yramin@redshift.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large UIDs (>65536) 
Message-ID:  <200006100606.XAA01356@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:44:25 PDT." <00060922435800.26335@atp.atpn.com> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone has considered allowing larger UIDs (unsigned 
> long) on a FreeBSD system?  What would this require changing?  From what I 
> can tell, the code is typedefed so if you go recompile everything, you should 
> be ok.  Am I missing anything here?

How about this line from <sys/types.h>:

typedef        u_int32_t       uid_t;          /* user id */

It pays to do your own research - then you only get to look silly in 
front of yourself. 8)

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200006100606.XAA01356>