Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:56:41 -0500, Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> said:
> If Debian ever hopes to have a policy beyond "all remaining uids and
> gids are reserved for local use", it's important to stake our claim
> *before* 32-bit ids are universally supported -- that is, before
> they're in widespread use at sites, and site admins have already
> deployed schemas that conflict with any default we might choose.
Is there a need for us to have a policy such as that? Is this
policy any good if it is in conflict with the other distributions and
other UNIX like machines in the environment?
I seem to recall True64 has 32 bit uid's already.
manoj
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