HEADS UP cygserver maintainers

[Cygwin (Robert Collins)]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-developers@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:44 AM
Subject: HEADS UP cygserver maintainers


> Hi,
>
> cygserver_shm.cc is still using uid_t and gid_t datatypes.  This must
> be changed to either __uid16_t/__gid16_t or __uid32_t/__gid32_t.
Since
> the datatypes uid_t and gid_t are changing their size according to the
> definition of __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ (see include/cygwin/types.h),
> their usage is disallowed inside of Cygwin (as is e. g. off_t as
well).
>
> It would be helpful to correct this as soon as possible.  I guess
since
> cygserver isn't really used so far, it doesn't make sense to use the
> old 16 bit datatypes anymore but instead to define these functions
> just with 32 bit types.

Yep, I agree - 32 bit should be used in cygserver. (How do we handle
compatability with 16 bit client programs though? Or do we require that
they are compiled with 32-bit?)

I don't mean existing binaries - they can simply recompile.

As for who does this, I'll try to make time :[.  (Adds to the queue..)

Rob