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Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:25:12 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: POSIX and uid_t resp. gid_t
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > How are the datatypes of uid_t and gid_t defined in POSIX?
> 
> "All of the types listed in Table 2-1 shall be arithmetic types;"

Thanks for the fast reply.

This isn't the answer, I hoped to get. The problem is, that in
a WinNT environment an arithmetic type isn't enough to get
the information of the user and the group of an object.
The loose translation via /etc/passwd and /etc/group will
never be able, to reflect the ownership of objects.

My idea was, to change uid_t and gid_t to the SID datatype.
The [fl]stat-calls would return complete ownership info.
This would be transparent to applications which never do
"id arithmetic" as e.g. ls(1).

It's too bad...

Thanks again,
Corinna

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