On Wed, 26 Jun 2024, Bruno Haible wrote: > The second patch makes the assumption that uid_t and gid_t are > at least 32-bits wide. I had written the code that way because on some > systems (SunOS 4 IIRC, older IRIX, and Linux [1]) uid_t and gid_t > had been 'unsigned short', and thus a comparison of an 'unsigned short' > with -1 always returned false. But nowadays, for more than 20 years, > they are 32-bit.
OpenServer 5 uses 'unsigned short'. ... tim@timosr5d 6% egrep 'gid_t|uid_t' /usr/include/sys/types.h typedef unsigned short uid_t; typedef unsigned short gid_t; ... Still a current product. > > Bruno > > [1] https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/highuid.html > [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20533606/ -- Tim Rice Multitalents t...@multitalents.net
