What exaclly do you need 32 UID for?
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
|
| 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:
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| 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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