From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 23: 2:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C0737C2C2 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01356; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006100606.XAA01356@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Yann Ramin Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large UIDs (>65536) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:44:25 PDT." <00060922435800.26335@atp.atpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:06:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 : 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