BSD process accounting with high uids

[Arthur Corliss]

Greetings:

Looking at the archives I see that this has been brought up in the past a few
times, but no one ever replied or resolved the issue (unless I missed
something).

Problem:  UIDs recorded are typed smaller than the 2.4+ default uid_t size.

Solution:  A two line patch in include/linux/acct.h which casts ac_uid &
ac_gid as uid_t/gid_t instead of __u16.

Now, I have to ask, why hasn't this been done already?  If I submit a patch,
will anyone consider actually applying this?  Or will I have to continue to
munge that file myself (and glibc's sys/acct.h) in order to get my tools to
work they're supposed to?

The sources for kernel 2.6.3 also still list uid/gid fields as __u16, BTW.

	--Arthur Corliss
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