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Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons



On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Yes there is. We have a scant number of dynamically allocated low user ID's,

Then allocate new areas. At least the Hurd has 2^32 - 1 available user id's,
that's plenty of room.

Even Linux has 2^16 - 1 IIRC, so there is no problem with a few hundred user
ids.

Marcus

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