On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:28:57PM -0400, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> > One area which I've heard is that the UID will be increased from 16 bits
> > to 32. Is this correct ...
>
> Yes.
>
> > ... and where is that documented?
>
> The source code. ;-)
And a good way to get around is with LXR. You can check on uid_t in
2.4 at http://lxr.linux.no/ident?v=2.4.0-test6;i=uid_t . Looking
briefly, it appears to be 16-bit for non-kernel code, and 32-bit in the
kernel.
--
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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