Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:09:12 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h Message-ID: <51711.990652152@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 17:07:22 EDT." <200105232107.RAA33361@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <200105232107.RAA33361@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: ><<On Wed, 23 May 2001 23:05:29 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said: > >> Why can't we simply make the uid_t and gid_t ? Is there some silly >> SVR4 compatibility thing here ? > >No, it's a FreeBSD compatibility thing. You could probably be a lot more helpfull by explaining this in sufficiently detail that somebody else could pick up this task, but I take it that you have deliberately chosen not to ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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