Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:38:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h Message-ID: <200105232138.RAA33622@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <51711.990652152@critter> References: <200105232107.RAA33361@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <51711.990652152@critter>
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<<On Wed, 23 May 2001 23:09:12 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said: >> 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 ? I certainly did not want to insult anybody's intelligence, but since you insist: If you change the size of a structure which is part of the ABI, then all of the usual binary-compatibility issues need to be considered and dealt with. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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