"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> with the keyring code, PAG's are no longer exposed to the user
> as a number.
This is not entirely correct. The PAG is still exposed to the user as a
supplemental group even when keyrings are in use; the code just no longer
relies on it existing and will recreate the group when needed.
> however, in the older group based PAG support, the PAG id is encoded as:
>
> ('A' << 24) + (pagCounter++ & 0xffffff));
>
> but this is split across two groups, given that most gids are still 16
> bits in most places.
Linux now uses a single GID for the PAG.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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