From owner-freebsd-audit Sat Jan 19 15:36:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD8537B400; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0JNWRk96174; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:32:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:32:27 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Robert Watson Cc: Mark Murray , audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixes for gid_t usage in libc Message-ID: <20020119183227.B68881@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200201172200.g0HM0St19717@grimreaper.grondar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:20:58PM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson 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 , 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