uid > 64k

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> there was again a report of uid > 64k.
>  
> Why don't we patch mkpasswd to keep uids below 64k until Cygwin 
> switches to uid32 ?

How do you fold the ids into 64K?  You never know if you're already
overwriting another id.

Corinna

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