On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:51:05AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:00:32 +0200 Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> wrote:
> >
> > linux/types.h has:
> > #ifdef __KERNEL__
> > typedef __kernel_uid32_t uid_t;
> > #else
> > typedef __kernel_uid_t uid_t;
> > #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
> >
> > And __kernel_uid_t is an "unsigned short"
>
> Anywhere this should be used (i.e. only in the kernel), uid_t will be
> __kernel_uid32_t. The change to this part of the siginfo_t structure has
> not yet propogated to the glibc headers and when it does, it is up to the
> glibc maintainers to make sure it matches what is used inside the kernel.
I'm still using libc5, and plan to do so for as long as I can.
Kurt
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