Re: [RFC] proposed IPC changes to support 32-bit UIDs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 00:04:08 +0000 (GMT)

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> suggestion... my real question was whether or not we had to support libc5
> compiles at all. If we do, then we can't rename any structures in the
> kernel include files. If we don't, then whatever is in the kernel source

Well we havent quite killed off libc4 yet (and in fact I know ISP boxes
running libc4 which is going to be very funny in about 29 days)

> code shouldn't matter, because it won't ever be seen when compiling any
> portable software. (glibc should wrap everything specified by POSIX,
> right?)

Yes.

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