Re: ANNOUNCE: 32-bit UID patch for Linux 2.0, 2.2

Tethys (tethys@it.newsint.co.uk)
Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:31:33 +0100

> Actually, what does UNIX98 say about UID length? Is it defined as 16,
> 32 or 64 bit?

None of the above :-) It merely says uid_t is a definition to hold UIDs:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/systypes.h.html

Having said that, <sys/types.h> on Solaris typedefs uid_t to be long
in a section labelled "POSIX and XOPEN Declarations".

Tet

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