From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 19 16:28: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355E811394 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:27:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08146; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:27:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd008006; Fri Feb 19 17:27:40 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14243; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:27:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902200027.RAA14243@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: UIDs greater than 65535? To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:27:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "John Polstra" at Feb 17, 99 10:10:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Can anybody think of a reason why UIDs > 65535 wouldn't work under > FreeBSD? They seem to work, and I can't find any reason why they > shouldn't. Even the NFS protocol (though not necessarily all NFS > servers) seems to be able to accomodate 4-byte UIDs. 65536 in an unsigned short is -1 is "nobody". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message