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Re: uid > 64k
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:48:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: uid > 64k
- References: <3E675F8D.414B9BBD@ieee.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna,
>
> there was again a report of uid > 64k.
>
> Why don't we patch mkpasswd to keep uids below 64k until Cygwin
> switches to uid32 ?
How do you fold the ids into 64K? You never know if you're already
overwriting another id.
Corinna
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