NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/unix/admin/5043

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From: [e-mail] (David Ross)
Subject: UID bit size on various platforms
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I apologize if this is information easily obtainable, but I was wondering
if anyone knew the actual range of a uid in various flavours of UNIX.
Specifically we're wondering about SunOS 4.1.2 and Solaris 2.0, AIX 3.2.2
for RS/6000's, NeXTSTEP 3.0 (BSD 4.3), and generic System V R4.

It seems like most systems are 15 or 16 bits, but is there any attempt
being made to switch to a 32 bit integer?

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