From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 23 14: 9:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (beachchick.freebsd.dk [212.242.34.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4BB37B42C; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4NL9Cm51713; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:09:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 17:07:22 EDT." <200105232107.RAA33361@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:09:12 +0200 Message-ID: <51711.990652152@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200105232107.RAA33361@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: >< said: > >> Why can't we simply make the uid_t and gid_t ? Is there some silly >> SVR4 compatibility thing here ? > >No, it's a FreeBSD compatibility thing. You could probably be a lot more helpfull by explaining this in sufficiently detail that somebody else could pick up this task, but I take it that you have deliberately chosen not to ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message