Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 11:46:14 -0500 From: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt>, chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off-Topic Question Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19971207114614.006a2cb4@interlog.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971205223542.9237A-100000@haldjas.folklore.e e> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205111310.20201D-100000@paladio>
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I can stand corrected, I guess I spend way to much time fixing Macs. 8 bits does ==> 256 16 bits does ==> 65536 Paul Griffith >> >> On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Griffith wrote: >> > If I am correct all BSD systems should support up to 65536 GID. I think >> > the GID is a 8 bit number so 0 to 65536 groups. I am not sure how it >> > handles UID, but then again I yet to see a Unix system with over 64K users >> >> Uhh, I'm confused. >> >> 8 bits ==> 256 >> 16 bits ==> 65536 >> >> Which do you mean? >> > >All in all, aren't both UIDs and GIDs 32 bit numbers in FreeBSD? > >2^32 > 4*1000*1000*1000 > >Where would you get all those users from? >
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