Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 06:20:08 GMT From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@oxit.fi> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/170346: Changes to support waitid() and related stuff Message-ID: <201208040620.q746K8iP036622@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR standards/170346; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@oxit.fi> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jau@iki.fi Cc: Subject: Re: standards/170346: Changes to support waitid() and related stuff Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:14:21 +0300 These links might shed some more light to the optimal placement of the idtype_t definition. http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/2/getacct/ http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/2/sigsend/ Both of these manual pages apply to Solaris-11. The same features are apparently also in HP-UX, but they are not SUS/POSIX - at least not yet. Esp. the sigsend() style functionality as a generalized kill() seems to me like a potential candidate to make it also to SUS/POSIX. Such functionality would be a natural companion to wait*() with generalized idtype_t and id_t. And in any case it seems likely that id_t and idtype_t will be used together almost anywhere where one is needed. Neither of them makes a whole lot sense without the other. So, keeping them together in the header files may be beneficial. Just my 0,02 EUR worth. --jau
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