Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:51:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <20010924095100.B18792@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109240959050.72305-100000@roam.ctron.com> References: <20010923232807.14C7A38FF@overcee.netplex.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109240959050.72305-100000@roam.ctron.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 24), Bernie Doehner said: > I was going from the warning you get from vipw if you try to assign a > UID greater than 64k (16 bits). > > I stand corrected, thanks. Even 32 bits doesn't get you to 1 million, > but we are deviating from the original intent of this thread, about > the maximum number of symbolic links in a dir. 32 bits gets you 4 billion. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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