From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 30 6:38:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C4814D7D for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 06:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA56133; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:38:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No MAXUID ? References: <55670.933331823@axl.noc.iafrica.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 30 Jul 1999 15:38:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:50:23 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > Another question I should have asked in my original mail is this: are > there magical reasons why we should want pwd_mkdb to bleat for every > encountered UID greater that 65535 ? How many times do I have to go through this? There is no "artificial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs. There were even a few such cases in our tree that I fixed less than a year ago IIRC. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message