From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: siginfo pad problem.
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:06:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030722170606.GA14680@ping.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030722095105.5ed2379a.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:51:05AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:00:32 +0200 Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> wrote:
> >
> > linux/types.h has:
> > #ifdef __KERNEL__
> > typedef __kernel_uid32_t uid_t;
> > #else
> > typedef __kernel_uid_t uid_t;
> > #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
> >
> > And __kernel_uid_t is an "unsigned short"
>
> Anywhere this should be used (i.e. only in the kernel), uid_t will be
> __kernel_uid32_t. The change to this part of the siginfo_t structure has
> not yet propogated to the glibc headers and when it does, it is up to the
> glibc maintainers to make sure it matches what is used inside the kernel.
I'm still using libc5, and plan to do so for as long as I can.
Kurt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-22 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-21 14:23 siginfo pad problem Kurt Roeckx
2003-07-21 16:24 ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-07-21 18:00 ` Kurt Roeckx
2003-07-21 23:51 ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-07-22 17:06 ` Kurt Roeckx [this message]
2003-07-22 17:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-22 17:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
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