From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 8 02:30:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA14631 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA14575 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA03140; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:36:29 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA11856; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:36:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA10290; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:27:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602080927.KAA10290@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb question To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:27:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602080022.QAA04064@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Feb 7, 96 04:22:17 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)