Re: Wish list 2.3.x

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
30 May 1999 05:36:18 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9905271010170.14710-100000@qbert.rs.itd.umich.edu>
By author: Len Smith <lrsmith@umich.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Is 32 bit UID support being built into the 2.3.x kernel? Chris Wing at the
> University of Michigan is providing some hacks to the glib libraries and
> kernel for 2.2.x to support 32 bit uid ( URLs below ) What are the chances
> of getting this into the 2.3.x kernel?
>

Extension of a lot of sizes -- including uid_t and gid_t -- are
planned for 2.3.

-hpa

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