Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2003/03/09/08:52:47
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 12:04:57PM +1100, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:
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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
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> > 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?)
Good question. Are there any apps outside which already use cygserver?
If not, we don't care.
> 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..)
Thanks. There's some time though. My patches to enable 32/64 are
waiting for the release of 1.3.21 first.
Corinna
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