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

Pavel Březina pbrezina at redhat.com
Mon Jan 26 11:37:10 UTC 2015


On 01/16/2015 11:58 AM, Stef Walter wrote:
> On 16.01.2015 11:56, Pavel Březina wrote:
>> On 01/16/2015 11:55 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:41:19AM +0100, Pavel Březina wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> OK, for input parameters and properties it makes sense to use unsigned
>>> number. I just checked AccountsService and they use UInt64 -- not sure
>>> why, can you check with Stef or Matthias Clasen ? I can't think of other
>>> reason than representing undefined or extra values, though.
>>>
>>> In SSSD itself, we use uint32_t to represent UIDs anyway.
>>
>> CCing Stef.
>
> No idea. Maybe for cross platform insurance? Matthias wrote that code.
>
> Although it would be awesome to have longer UIDs in the kernel, the
> reality is that we're limited to uint32_t.
>
> Stef

Let's go with uint32. All the underlying functions uses uid_t or 
uint32_t if the code is shared for uid and gids so there is no point to 
allow bigger ids here since it would have to be converted to uint32 anyway.




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