Re: What to do with too-large group ids?

[Paul Eggert]

> From: address@hidden (Kai
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:36:58 +0200
> 
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > You could return large uids as strings.
> 
> They might easily be confused for user names in that case.

Then why not return them as floating-point numbers instead?  This is
what's already done for file sizes, if they are out of range for an
integer.