Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:36:31 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wrong type for gid in include/gid.h? Message-ID: <20011214193631.A796@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20011214135015.A64853@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:50:15PM %2B0200 References: <20011214103405.D35094@sunbay.com> <200112141049.fBEAn2U84396@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20011214135015.A64853@sunbay.com>
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:50:15PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:49:02AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > If you also going to fix initgroups(3) and friends, I'm > > > all for that. NetBSD had this for years. > > > > What is wrong with initgroups? > > > initgroups(3) and getgrouplist(3) both use `int' where they > should have used `gid_t'. Actually, there are many places in the base system which assume that gr_gid is int. Some of them are trivial to fix, some - like amd, pw(8) and sysinstall - require a bit more thinking. G'luck, Peter -- What would this sentence be like if pi were 3? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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