Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] proposed IPC changes to support 32-bit UIDs | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:08:43 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> This will only be a problem if someone wants to include the kernel headers > directly in his/her application (did the old libc5 do it this way, > though?)
Yes. So you just keep the old one around and name the new ones differently.
> I could have stuck in the high UID and GID in a similar manner, but this > would mean breaking DIPC because there were only 2 32-bit words left in > the shmid_ds structure, and one was already claimed by DIPC. In any case, > I thought that it would be cleaner to just start over with new structures. > I haven't looked at the relevant standards committee documents (SuS), so > perhaps I should be leaving more space for other things...
I agree. Expand the message counts/sizes to 32bit too. We dont need to use the top 16 yet but it will happen.
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