Re: UID width

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:20:47 -0500 (EST)


peeter joot writes:

> Concerning the use of __ipc_pid_t in the userland exported msq_ds structure:
...
> I posted a second patch that also handled the 16 ipc_pid_t limitation
> and cleaned up a couple things in the first patch.
>
> If anybody is interested I can put together a consolidated patch set (along
> with the libc changes to take advantage of them) and repost them. All

I think the concern is that libc won't be compatible with:
1. existing apps that link to it
2. existing apps that interact with new apps

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