On Wed, Jun 29, 2011, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: practical limit on the number of UIDs": > PAM and NSS are completely userspace (right?). Should the kernel even > care about users that are not currently logged on?
The only place I could think of, where the kernel needs something like a list of users, is the quota system (actually, I've even lost track whether this is now done in the kernel, or in user space). I guess that nobody else can think of any other places as well - since nobody mentioned any. So Muli, you're good to go ;-) -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jun 30 2011, 28 Sivan 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Recursive, adj.: See Recursive http://nadav.harel.org.il | _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
