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what is gid_t?

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Subject: what is gid_t?
From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 94 15:39:53 MET DST
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany Department of Mathematics

Working on bindings for Psetgroups() and Pgetgroups(), I cam across the
following question: my (self-made) library defines gid_t (and uid_t)
as unsigned char, because the manual page for Psetgid() etc clearly
states that legal values range from 0..255.

Question: *why*? In the PROC and XATTR structure, I found shorts. Am I
missing something or could this restriction be lifted?

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