Sheldon Hearn <sheld...@uunet.co.za> writes: > Another question I should have asked in my original mail is this: are > there magical reasons why we should want pwd_mkdb to bleat for every > encountered UID greater that 65535 ?
How many times do I have to go through this? There is no "artificial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs. There were even a few such cases in our tree that I fixed less than a year ago IIRC. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
