Re: siginfo pad problem.

[Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:51:05AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:00:32 +0200 Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> wrote:
> >
> > linux/types.h has:
> > #ifdef __KERNEL__
> > typedef __kernel_uid32_t        uid_t;
> > #else
> > typedef __kernel_uid_t          uid_t;
> > #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
> > 
> > And __kernel_uid_t is an "unsigned short"
> 
> Anywhere this should be used (i.e. only in the kernel), uid_t will be
> __kernel_uid32_t.  The change to this part of the siginfo_t structure has
> not yet propogated to the glibc headers and when it does, it is up to the
> glibc maintainers to make sure it matches what is used inside the kernel.

I'm still using libc5, and plan to do so for as long as I can.


Kurt