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DateSat, 9 Jan 1999 11:22:03 +1300
FromChris Wedgwood <>
SubjectRe: UID width
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 10:49:27PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Instead of trying to sure this stupid SysV IPC finally implement
> the POSIX IPC methods.  Global semaphores, message queues etc are
> still not supported be the kernel.

SysV IPC is used by many programs -- we're not trying to sure it up.
I just want all values passed to/from the kernel to be 'sufficiently
large'. Right now, we can make all 16-bit values passed 32-bit and it
will cost us nothing (in fact, we'll save a few cycles in some code
paths).

POSIX IPC is another story... I hope we don't screw this up too.
Where can I find patches for this?



-Chris

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