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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval
From: Eray Aslan <eras () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2021-11-29 14:17:22
Message-ID: YaTg8sOSkWgpi8VA () rog ! a21an ! org
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On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 11:06:36AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 09:36:32AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
> >> 1/ Static allocation does not really solve a problem. Not really not
> >> nowadays
> >> 2/ We cant keep adding new IDs to a distribution as new software gets
> >> added - one side is unbounded. This is losing game.
>
> Not sure. In practice, the number of packages is limited. (And if the
> argument was valid, it would apply to dynamic alloction too.)
In the static allocation option, the rate of increase is the rate of new
ID-needing software ported to the tree minus - optimistically - the rate
of treecleaning similar software. Optimistic because I am not sure how
much, or at what point, do we want to re-use treecleaned IDs.
In the dynamic case, we dont care about the global status and are really
bound by the max number of sysem IDs installed in a single system.
Local maximum is rather stable and in any case is a lot smaller than
global maximum. Plus in this age of containers and namespaces, this
isnt really a problem even if it did grow over time, i.e. even if
unbounded, we have tools to manage it.
--
Eray
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