Re: Comments on XBDd5 ERN 322

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>From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>

>These are incompatible requirements, just like the networking issue we were
>talking about recently.

>If you want 64 bit uid_ts, you'll just have to have an environment with 64
>bit longs. [This assumes that we want uid_t to fit in a long; Geoff points
>out that that's a new guarantee, not an existing one.]

Which should be no problem as 64 bit CPU's and operating systems are 
available in use for many years.





Jörg

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