From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 23:26:10 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 46A0A37BBE7; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:26:06 -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 XAA01530; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006100630.XAA01530@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Yann Ramin Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large UIDs (>65536) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:22:46 PDT." <00060923222602.26335@atp.atpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:30:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages > from pwd_mkdb: > > "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters > chpass: updating the database... > pwd_mkdb: 140000 > recommended max uid value (65535) > chpass: done > > I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is Linux one of them?), and > I interpeted that as an error message, not a warning. I was silly :) Actually, it's wire protocols that are the issue; NFSv2 in particular. -- \\ 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