Re: HEADS UP cygserver maintainers

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 12:04:57PM +1100, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Corinna Vinschen" <vinschen at redhat dot com>
> To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot 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?)

Good question.  Are there any apps outside which already use cygserver?
If not, we don't care.

> 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..)

Thanks.  There's some time though.  My patches to enable 32/64 are
waiting for the release of 1.3.21 first.

Corinna

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