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Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?



Colin Watson wrote:
> I'm slightly concerned by how we're going to map onto other systems'
> uses of 32-bit uids here, since there will already be some. 0-99 and
> 60000-64999 were reasonably obvious back in the day, but I don't have a
> feel for how big systems are allocating uids now. I would be inclined to
> start allocating from near the top, although perhaps not right at the
> top to avoid 2^32-1. Perhaps we should reserve something like 2^32-2^24
> to 2^32-2^16 (255 chunks) so that we have space for anything else that
> may turn out to need similar large block allocations.

FWIW, I have a package that could use a block of about 1 thousand uids.
Right now, it's, er, camping in the middle of the reserved block.

> I would like to see an initiative to agree this between multiple
> distributions via the LSB or similar with input from people running
> large systems, otherwise there'll probably be a horrible mess down the
> line.

Good idea.

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