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On Wed, 2007-Jan-31 10:52:02 +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>If we do decide to go ahead with the ABI change, there are a number of=20
>other things that should be done simultaneously, such as changing the uid=
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>and gid fields to uid_t and gid_t.

And mode to mode_t.  The uid and gid fields in struct shmid_ds have
already been converted, though the ones in struct ipc_perm are
obsolete.  At a quick glance, everything else is up to date.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/ is a useful reference
in this area.

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Peter Jeremy

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