David:
> Well, 2.3.40 builds and boots fine now, but as Bob pointed
> out, the following one line c program fails to compile using libc5.
>
> #include <signal.h>
>
>
> In file included from /usr/include/linux/signal.h:5,
> from /usr/include/signal.h:28,
> from uidt.c:1:
> /usr/include/asm/siginfo.h:27: parse error before `old_uid_t'
> ....
Darn it, I didn't notice that siginfo.h was included by signal.h. The
following patch should fix the problem. (but it's only a temporary
solution, I really don't want old_uid_t to be defined in the libc5
namespace at all...)
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Chris Wing
wingc@engin.umich.edu
--- linux-2.3.40pre1/include/linux/types.h Wed Jan 12 13:05:57 2000
+++ linux-arch-independ/include/linux/types.h Wed Jan 12 16:34:06 2000
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@
typedef __kernel_uid16_t uid16_t;
typedef __kernel_gid16_t gid16_t;
-/* This is defined by include/asm-{arch}/posix_types.h */
-typedef __kernel_old_uid_t old_uid_t;
-typedef __kernel_old_gid_t old_gid_t;
-
/* libc5 includes this file to define uid_t, thus uid_t can never change
* when it is included by non-kernel code
*/
@@ -34,6 +30,10 @@
typedef __kernel_uid_t uid_t;
typedef __kernel_gid_t gid_t;
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
+/* This is defined by include/asm-{arch}/posix_types.h */
+typedef __kernel_old_uid_t old_uid_t;
+typedef __kernel_old_gid_t old_gid_t;
#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)
typedef __kernel_loff_t loff_t;
diff -uNr linux-2.3.40pre1/include/asm-i386/posix_types.h linux-i386/include/asm-i386/posix_types.h
--- linux-2.3.40pre1/include/asm-i386/posix_types.h Mon Jan 10 21:15:58 2000
+++ linux-i386/include/asm-i386/posix_types.h Wed Jan 12 16:36:09 2000
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
typedef unsigned short __kernel_gid16_t;
typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid32_t;
typedef unsigned int __kernel_gid32_t;
+typedef unsigned short __kernel_old_uid_t;
+typedef unsigned short __kernel_old_gid_t;
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#define UID16_COMPAT_NEEDED
-typedef unsigned short __kernel_old_uid_t;
-typedef unsigned short __kernel_old_gid_t;
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#ifdef __GNUC__
-
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