[276] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Limited Uid Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dawn C. Stokes)
Tue Aug 13 13:11:35 1991
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 11:14:55 CDT
From: ibmchs!auschs!dawnald.austin.ibm.com!dstokes@cs.utexas.edu (Dawn C. Stokes)
To: <@auschs.MIT.EDU:ibmchs!cs.utexas.edu!leong@ifs.umich.edu>
Cc: <@auschs.MIT.EDU:ibmchs!cs.utexas.edu!info-afs@transarc.com>
>> system and AFS too ? Also, I would like to know what uid space
>> (how many bits) is offered by the different unix platform ?
In AIX 3.1 uids are 32-bit (ulongs) and in AIX 2.2.1 uids are 16 bits (ushort).
For AIX 2.2.1 the uid is defined in the /usr/include/sys/inode.h file.
For AIX 3.1 a typedef was used, uid_t, it is defined in /usr/include/sys/types.h
Thanks, Dawn Stokes
