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From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@oxit.fi>
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Subject: Re: standards/170346: Changes to support waitid() and related stuff
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The following reply was made to PR standards/170346; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@oxit.fi>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jau@iki.fi
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Subject: Re: standards/170346: Changes to support waitid() and related stuff
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:14:21 +0300

 These links might shed some more light to the optimal
 placement of the idtype_t definition.
 
 http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/2/getacct/
 
 http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/2/sigsend/
 
 Both of these manual pages apply to Solaris-11. The same
 features are apparently also in HP-UX, but they are not
 SUS/POSIX - at least not yet.
 Esp. the sigsend() style functionality as a generalized
 kill() seems to me like a potential candidate to make it
 also to SUS/POSIX. Such functionality would be a natural
 companion to wait*() with generalized idtype_t and id_t.
 
 And in any case it seems likely that id_t and idtype_t
 will be used together almost anywhere where one is
 needed. Neither of them makes a whole lot sense
 without the other. So, keeping them together in the
 header files may be beneficial.
 
 Just my 0,02 EUR worth.
 --jau