[28985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pop server in an ISP environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Tue May 30 10:34:00 2000
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:30:23 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 at 13:01:22 (+0200), Peter van Dijk wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pop server in an ISP environment
>
> Indeed. For example, for the company I work for (that is burdened by the
> 64k limit right now because of lot's of stock linux 2.0.x kernels), I am
> developing a mail-solution that doesn't chew up UIDs for popboxes.
Where's the 64k limit in Linux 2.0.x? I see on a 2.0.38 system that
uid_t eventually boils down to an "unsigned int", which on any iX86 I've
ever met running Linux will mean 2^32 possible users....
This particular Linux system doesn't seem to have any way to store user
information except in a flat /etc/passwd though, so there may be some
issue with scanning the passwd file, though last time I did any similar
tests there wasn't anything to notice until well after 100,000 entries.
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