Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:31:19 -0500 (EST) | | From | Chris Wing <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] proposed IPC changes to support 32-bit UIDs |
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Alan:
> > suggestion... my real question was whether or not we had to support libc5 > > compiles at all. If we do, then we can't rename any structures in the > > kernel include files. If we don't, then whatever is in the kernel source > > Well we havent quite killed off libc4 yet (and in fact I know ISP boxes > running libc4 which is going to be very funny in about 29 days)
Hmm...
Anyway, I'll fix up the IPC stuff to preserve backwards compatibility with libc5; I'm afraid I'm too young to remember libc4 :)
Does this mean that I can't rename the system calls from getuid to getuid16, etc., either? (at worst, my changes to unistd.h may cause problems to those who recompile the C library against the new kernel headers, but shouldn't affect ordinary program compiles)
Thanks, Chris Wing wingc@engin.umich.edu
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