[SSSD] Design Discussion: Domains, users and groups over D-Bus

Pavel Březina pbrezina at redhat.com
Fri Jan 16 10:41:19 UTC 2015


On 01/16/2015 11:39 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:29:27AM +0100, Pavel Březina wrote:
>> One more question - uid_t is unsigned int. Should we use it in FindById
>> instead of int64_t which was taken from the original design page?
>
> uid_t is unsigned 32bit on most (all?) platforms. IIRC int64_t was
> chosen so that we cover the 32bit value range and can use the negative
> range for errors.

I don't think I follow. What errors? Errors are reported through D-Bus 
error message, not through an input parameter.




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