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Re: HEADS UP cygserver maintainers
- From: "Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)" <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:04:57 +1100
- Subject: Re: HEADS UP cygserver maintainers
- References: <20030308164426.GK1193@cygbert.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: "Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <vinschen at redhat dot com>
To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:44 AM
Subject: HEADS UP cygserver maintainers
> Hi,
>
> cygserver_shm.cc is still using uid_t and gid_t datatypes. This must
> be changed to either __uid16_t/__gid16_t or __uid32_t/__gid32_t.
Since
> the datatypes uid_t and gid_t are changing their size according to the
> definition of __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ (see include/cygwin/types.h),
> their usage is disallowed inside of Cygwin (as is e. g. off_t as
well).
>
> It would be helpful to correct this as soon as possible. I guess
since
> cygserver isn't really used so far, it doesn't make sense to use the
> old 16 bit datatypes anymore but instead to define these functions
> just with 32 bit types.
Yep, I agree - 32 bit should be used in cygserver. (How do we handle
compatability with 16 bit client programs though? Or do we require that
they are compiled with 32-bit?)
I don't mean existing binaries - they can simply recompile.
As for who does this, I'll try to make time :[. (Adds to the queue..)
Rob