On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Kelsey Hartigan Go wrote:
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> The 64K limit is due to the array handling the file...so if you have 3 files, 
> then that would mean 3 64K limit.  Now that remains to be seen...
> I'm just explaining based on my knowledge on the passwd file.

No, it's because the UID (which is intimately linked in the kernel,
e.g. ownership of BOTH files and processes) is a 16-bit unsigned
integer. You can try Solaris (32-bit UIDs or Linux 2.4).


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