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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:07:29 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject: POSIX and uid_t resp. gid_t
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Hi all,

I have an important question regarding security in cygwin:

How are the datatypes of uid_t and gid_t defined in POSIX?

Are they constrained to be basic datatypes like int or unsigned long
or would it be possible to define them as compound datatypes as e.g.
struct { int [6]; } or something else?

Unfortunately, I don't own a copy of the POSIX draft.

Regards,
Corinna