On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:53:37PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:27:12PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what the limit is on a > > > UID? Ie what is the highest integer it can go up to..... > > > > > > I suppose as well some applications have different values.. or am I > > > completly wrong :) > > > > The functions that deal with user ID's take a parameter of type uid_t. > > The uid_t type is defined in <sys/types.h> as u_int32_t. Hence, at least > > theoretically, FreeBSD supports uid's in the range 0 to 4G-1. > > It supports them that high, yes, but I believe they wrap at 99999.
I believe you are thinking of pid's (process ID's), not uid's (user ID's). G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - well, no, actually it doesn't!
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