18 Oct
2017
18 Oct
'17
8:46 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
The BRL/JHU kernel was based on V6. It had a kludge
to allow more that
256 users but eventually, we widened the UID/GID to 16 bits each. We then
added a the ability to mount either V6 or V7 file systems (we had a lot of
removable V6 FS media).
We dropped the GID (nobody used them) and glued it onto the UID, thus
making it 16-bit.
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suffer."