Re: High UID support for Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
22 Nov 1998 20:14:53 GMT

Followup to: <199811221759.MAA00090@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> It is generally bad to go past 99999, since all sorts of reporting tools
> get hopelessly messed up. It is _not_ an issue of "fix the tools" though,
> since there simply isn't enough room on a standard 80-column display.
> Imagine something like /bin/ps with lines wrapped... eww, unreadable mess!
>

Actually, it *is* an issue of "fix the tools" -- the tools have to
deal with it SOMEHOW properly.

-hpa

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