This is a patch for the 2.0 kernel. The particular patches are against 2.0.35 (and the stuff that comes with the Red Hat 5.1 distribution) but it will be updated to 2.0.36 and Red Hat 5.2 soon.

The actual changes necessary to support 32 bit UIDs aren't that complicated, but there are many changes necessary in many different parts of the system:
 

 Kernel changes

 New syscalls and changes to kernel functions
 The ext32 filesystem

 What about libc5 or static linked programs?

 Changes to the Arla AFS client

 Things known to be broken
 

- Chris Wing - wingc@engin.umich.edu - 12/1/1998