Re: HEADSUP everyone: 32/64bit changes are commited

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > Pierre,
> >
> > First off, there is a patch (in?) that allows sparse files on NT+, so it
> > may not be that much of a deal on those systems (unless the indices are
> > dense enough, which is not going to happen).  Is the above likely to be a
> > problem on Win9x?
>
> Good point.
> On Win9x mkpasswd limits the uid to 64k, so not a real problem.
> Are sparse files available on all NT versions and all file systems?

I think NTFS only... :-(
Maybe a hash could be used instead of an array?

> > Secondly, is lastlog accessed through a uniform interface (library), or
> > does every application implement its own?
>
> Apparently the latter. I couldn't find any standard.
> Pierre

Then it's a matter of changing each individual application...  Nasty.
	Igor
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