Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:46:20 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb max uid warning. Message-ID: <15569.942914780@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "17 Nov 1999 20:51:48 %2B0200." <85iu312bp7.fsf@dialup90.apex.dp.ua>
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On 17 Nov 1999 20:51:48 +0200, Vadim Belman wrote: > I see only one reason for this: for keeping compatibility with > old utilities which don't use uid_t but relay on unsigned short > values. Am I right? Is there any other reason? Or, perhaps, this > code is obsolete and may be removed without harm? This code is not obsolete. Bruce Evans brought to my attention at least two problem areas: IDs used by NFS, and IDs used by the linuxulator. The latter one is interesting... The linuxulator will take a UID that overflows a u_int16_t by 1 (resulting in the value 0) as root's UID. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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