From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 7 08:44:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA07261 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 08:44:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA07250 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 08:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulg@interlog.com) Received: from default (ip213-44.cc.interlog.com [207.34.213.44]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA07772; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 11:43:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19971207114614.006a2cb4@interlog.com> X-Sender: paulg@interlog.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 11:46:14 -0500 To: Narvi , Jason Evans From: Paul Griffith Subject: Re: Off-Topic Question Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Monteiro , chat@hub.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? >