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. -- see shy jo
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