Wolfgang Jährling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This overflow UID can be set with sysctl(8) and defaults to the value > 65534 (not 65535, as one might expect). It seems to be good enough for > Linux, but I'm not sure if it is good enough for us, so how should we > handle this situation? Storing the UID `(ushort) ~0' in the i_uid field > of the inode and using some trick (which shouldn't break anything, of > course) to store the real UID elsewhere?
Ideally we use the trick. One idea is just a straightforward file somewhere in the filesystem that holds an index of inode numbers and UIDs. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
