[PATCH] 2.4.x BSD Process Accounting w/High UID

[Arthur Corliss]

Greetings:

The patch only changes two lines of code  which redefine the
ac_uid/ac_gid fields as uid_t/gid_t respectively.  Fixes accounting for
high uid/gids.

	--Arthur Corliss
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	  "Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto--- linux-2.4.25/include/linux/acct.h   2004-03-04 07:50:49.000000000 -0900
+++ linux/include/linux/acct.h  2004-03-04 09:07:18.000000000 -0900
@@ -38,11 +38,13 @@
 {
        char            ac_flag;                /* Accounting Flags */
 /*
- *     No binary format break with 2.0 - but when we hit 32bit uid we'll
- *     have to bite one
+ *     The pure linux source defines uid_t & gid_t as u32 by default
+ *     on most platforms.  This breaks compatibility with older utilities
+ *     and account files compiled ith ac_uid/ac_gid as __u16.  Unfortunately,
+ *     this has to happen if you actually use high uid/gids.
  */
-       __u16           ac_uid;                 /* Accounting Real User ID */
-       __u16           ac_gid;                 /* Accounting Real Group ID */
+       uid_t           ac_uid;                 /* Accounting Real User ID */
+       gid_t           ac_gid;                 /* Accounting Real Group ID */
        __u16           ac_tty;                 /* Accounting Control Terminal */
        __u32           ac_btime;               /* Accounting Process Creation Time */
        comp_t          ac_utime;               /* Accounting User Time */