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Re: New release time?
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > It matters mostly for the uid/gid problem. A uid of 65536 is returned
> > as uid 0 by getuid(). ls and id will print wrong uids and gids for
> > ids >64K. sshd will refuse logins. That sort of stuff comes to mind.
> > I'm just trying to overcome this sort of problem as soon as possible.
> >
>
> Corinna, isn't it the case that uid >= 64k do NOT work correctly currently
> (e.g. when starting bash, /etc/profile yields "id: cannot find name for user ID
> 0",
> telnet doesn't work, etc...)
>
> So, assuming people don't use uids >= 64k today, the mere fact of switching
> to 32 bit uids won't cause any problem.
> It's only when people start using uids >= 64k that issues will crop up
> with old applications, but that's not different from today.
Yes, sure, I know that. I'm just trying to get rid of these problems
ASAP. I see a lot of confusion already when application A reports uid
12 while application B reports uid 65548.
It's ok, I don't say a word about that anymore. I was just trying to
avoid problems. No, nobody has to create a new package and yes, all
applications will still run as before. No need to hurry. Everything's
fine.
Corinna
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