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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:51:31 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2Gb SYSVSHM limitation
Message-ID:  <20060717215131.69cf4091@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060717182314.O26409@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20060712125112.W61255@is.park.rambler.ru> <200607171256.00539.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060717182314.O26409@fledge.watson.org>

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Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> (Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:25:03 +0100 (BST)):

> We're well-overdue for an ABI roll on the System V IPC data structures, but 
> when we do this, we need to be careful to:
> 
> (a) Provide the compat bits properly.
> 
> (b) Make sure we fix all the things that need fixing.

> While here, we should fix the above uids and gids do be of appropriate data 
> types.  McAfee did the first step here by breaking out kernel and user data 
> structures a few years ago as part of the MAC Framework work, but we'll need 
> new bits to do the next part for compat system calls.

Feel free to send an appropriate text for inclusion into our ideas list.

Bye,
Alexander.

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