Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:27:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs) Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb question Message-ID: <199602080927.KAA10290@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602080022.QAA04064@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Feb 7, 96 04:22:17 pm
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As Archie Cobbs wrote: > So is there some reason why UID's are limited to 16 bits here? > I have a need for big UID's ... (don't ask :-) The warning should remain, but become non-fatal. The only reason i could think of are braindead archive formats (tar, cpio ?), and situations where you have to YP-serve more limited hosts in a network. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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