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Re: What to do with too-large group ids?
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: What to do with too-large group ids? |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Jul 2002 01:08:40 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: address@hidden (Kai
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:36:58 +0200
>
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > You could return large uids as strings.
>
> They might easily be confused for user names in that case.
Then why not return them as floating-point numbers instead? This is
what's already done for file sizes, if they are out of range for an
integer.
- What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/27
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/07/27
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/27
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/28
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/29
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Andreas Schwab, 2002/07/29
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/29
- Re: What to do with too-large group ids?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/29