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SubjectRe: UID width
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Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz> writes:

> One problem I have in doing this, is some of the glibc IPC structures
> assume 16-bit pid_t -- which IMO is damned silly.

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.

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