Re: Number of groups

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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:08:34 -0400
To: Vitali Malicky <life@zone3000.net>

Vitali Malicky wrote:
> I would like to make it unambiguously clear for me how many groups does
> FreeBSD support?

The header file suggests the number is large (around 4 billion):

typedef u_int32_t gid_t; /* group id */

...but the traditional limit was 65000 or so (short/int16).

-- 
-Chuck
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