Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop 30000-59999 uid/gid reservation
Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> Well, I have a package that really needs a minumum of 100 but ideally
> 1000 semi-static uids of its own (the block should be contiguous; must
> have _no_ user in the password file for at least a large percentage of
> them; don't ask), but I have not dared to bring it up on policy.
Scary, why would it need so many uids?
At the moment we have a bit under 5000 free entries in the static
system allocation range (60000-64999) and we still have 65000 up
to 65533 reserved, so we are not short on space.
Wichert.
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