a while ago I asked if anyone knows about the progress of linux
supporting 32 bit UIDs instead of the current 16, and nobody would
know. now I see it's part of the latest 2.3 and 2.4-test kernels, and
there's only one line to remove manually from the .config file (not a
menu option).
but I understand there are a few binaries like ls to recompile once I
have this new kernel installed, so here are a few questions I could not
find the answers to in mailing list archives, and maybe someone here
knows:
a. why is it still not the default to have highUID in current
distributions? does it break anything major?
b. other than ls, and I suppose ps, do I need to recompile glibc? other
binaries?
thanks!
Ira.
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