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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: kern/16195: 16-bit uid/gid struct in sys/ipc.h 
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<<On Wed, 23 May 2001 23:09:12 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:

>> 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 ?

I certainly did not want to insult anybody's intelligence, but since
you insist:

If you change the size of a structure which is part of the ABI, then
all of the usual binary-compatibility issues need to be considered and
dealt with.

-GAWollman


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