Re: Augmenting the number of users
Wolfgang Rohdewald (WRohdewald@online-club.de)
Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:28:11 +0100
At 08.01.99 12:41 +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
>Following those discussions about extending uid and gid to 32 bits ...
>
>The basic problem to extent the number of users beyond 65534 is the way
>the unix perms are interpreted :
>lets says perms are noted xxxyyyzzz
>xxx apply if the calling process has the same uid
>yyy apply if the calling process has the same gid
>zzz apply otherwise.
do you have any idea how much existing code would be broken if those
rules are changed ? I think it would be a lot !
Wolfgang
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