Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:49:26 -0500 From: "Guy Helmer" <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Peter Pentchev" <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: gid_t vs. plain int Message-ID: <IIEMKPDDELBAEMJFGFHIOEDICAAA.ghelmer@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <20010425095347.I1790@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:54 AM Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> [010425 08:46] wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:36:40PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > OK. I've (kinda) had enough. > > > > > > Is there a reason that struct group in <group.h> does not > define 'gr_gid' > > > > of course that should read <grp.h>, not <group.h>. > > > > > as a gid_t value, but as a plain int? This makes all kinds of things > > > go berserk with gcc -Wall -W, and causes dozens of (totally unneeded) > > > casts. > > > > > > Is there some standard that says pw_gid is gid_t, but gr_gid is int? > > > If not, would anyone be interested in patches (yes, I'm > prepared to sweep > > > the whole source tree), making gr_gid a gid_t? > > It looks like a worthy task, I would ask Bruce and Wollman about it > before taking it on if it looks like a lot of work just to make sure > it's the right thing. PR 22210 addresses this issue and a fix, along with comments from Garrett Wollman about his anticipated fix. However, the PR is over six months old :-) Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. http://www.palisadesys.com/~ghelmer/ Sr. Software Engineer, Palisade Systems ghelmer@palisadesys.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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