Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:32:27 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixes for gid_t usage in libc Message-ID: <20020119183227.B68881@espresso.q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020119171955.32726O-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:20:58PM -0500 References: <200201172200.g0HM0St19717@grimreaper.grondar.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020119171955.32726O-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes: > It's worth pointing out that there's a PR open on the uid_t/gid_t problem > in the System V IPC interfaces; however, unlike in this situation, that > case has a binary compatibility problem since the interfaces currently use > 16-bit types :-(. We'll need to hack in binary compatibility for that, > and also handle the linuxlator properly. However, these changes look > generally good to me -- does this bring us closer or further from any > standards compliance? I think the only change that is applicable to any standards is the one in <grp.h>, which does bring us closer to conformance. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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