32-bit UID support

From: Eugene Crosser (crosser@average.org)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 00:58:55 EST


Can Chris or someone please tell me what is the reason behind leaving
__kernel_uid_t == short on x86 architecture, and adding
__kernel_uid32_t? To me, it sounds more reasonable to rather make
__kernel_uid_t == int and add __kernel_uid16_t == short for binary
compatibility things.

As a result of current status of things, 32bit uid support does *not*
become visible to the userspace when you rebuild glibc with the new
kernel source. To make it take effect, you also need to modify glibc
source, and in a rather illogical way.

Am I missing something?

Eugene

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