On 30 Jul 1999 15:38:30 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> How many times do I have to go through this? Until I stuff a comment in the source that explains 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. Would you be happy with changing things so that only one warning is generated? Something like "99999 > max_uid 65535: others may exist"? The current behaviour is quite annoying with large passwd files. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
