Re: High UID support for Linux

Liran Zvibel (liranz@math.tau.ac.il)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 17:19:56 +0200 (GMT+0200)


On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> Depends what you mean with 'boot', or starting user-space
> programs, like '/sbin/init' ?
>
> Extending EXT2 fs uid-spaces is trivial, once the interface
> issues to user-space are resolved (and all new binaries are
> in use which use 32-bit uids..)

While doing it we can change the time stamps to 64 bits, and resolve the
y2038 problem.

Liran.

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