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From: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: uid range on Ultrix
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Date: 26 Jul 90 15:19:20 GMT
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Reply-To: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
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In article <157@decvax.decvax.dec.com.UUCP> chetal@flume.zk3.dec.com (Pradeep Chetal) writes:
> [my question about the max uid deleted]
>
>Yup, Ultrix 4.0 HAS the same restriction.
>This is for POSIX compliance.
>
>/Pradeep

POSIX doesn't define the UID_MAX, just that the uid_t type should be a short.


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