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Re: FW: Limit output of mkpasswd?
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:11:04AM +0200, Demmer, Thomas wrote:
> There is, however, a minor bug, or mismatch between
> `mkpasswd/group' and `id'. The former happily output uids and
> gids larger than 0xffff, while `id' apparently only uses 16 bit.
mkpasswd/mkgroup just print the stuff they get from the NT calls.
uids/gids in Cygwin are due to an old constraint only 16 bit.
This will change in one of the next Cygwin versions.
Corinna
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