Re: High UID support for Linux

Chuck Lever (chuckl@netscape.com)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:51:41 -0500


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what you really have to worry about is parts of the system that use
UIDs or GIDs as a data structure index. quota support and the programs
and files used to record last login information come to mind.

> From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 21:11:33 -0500
> Subject: Re: High UID support for Linux
>
> In message <19981123113705.A11693@caffeine.ix.net.nz>, Chris Wedgwood writes:
> +-----
> | On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 08:14:53PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> |
> | > Actually, it *is* an issue of "fix the tools" -- the tools have to
> | > deal with it SOMEHOW properly.
> |
> | "Sorry you display is too small to display the requested information"
> +--->8
>
> "ps aux" is already there, insofar as it only displays something like 12
> characters' worth of command. :-)
>
> - --
> brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
> system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
> carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
> Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.
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