> Maybe Alan will mutter something about sysvipc.
> Roughly speaking there are only advantages, especially since
> I think we'll have to do this sooner or later, and in such cases
> sooner is better.

The sysvipc situation isn't that bad. The new interfaces added for
32-bit uids also contain 32-bit pid values.
The semaphore code contains a stupid hack that assumes 16-bit uids,
appart from that apps linked against new glibc version should run fine.

[patch vs. 2.5.6-pre2 attached, but untested].

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	Manfred