Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Nicholas Tufar (nt@yargitay.gov.tr)
Sat, 29 May 1999 16:14:02 +0300 (EEST)


On 27 May 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Okay, 2.3 is out; it's time to get some fundamental data types
> expanded:
>
> REQUIRED:
>
> uid_t, gid_t: 32 bits minimum, 32 bits probably OK.

Some ISPs and mail servers may have more than 65536 users on one system.
I would propose to make uid_t and gid_t 64 bits.

Nicholas

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