On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:26:24PM +0100, simas wrote: > can anyone explain me what is different between > SYS_setuid and SYS_setuid32 syscalls in x86 ? Linux traditionally supported only 16 bit uids and gids. At some point, someone felt this limitation was a little too strong, so they extended the [ug]ids to 32 bits, and added new systemcalls to handle the longer data types. Check the documentation in Documentation/ for the /proc/sys/kernel/overflowuid and overflowgid files. -- United States of America: The world leader in short-sighted policy!
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