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Re: New release time?
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.
Pierre