From: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] sudo: Drop sudo_cv_uid_t_len from site files
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:41:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3496C5.60707@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3203108.rdKDhXfA9V@perseus>
On 07/30/2011 02:03 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Saturday, July 30, 2011 07:39:47 PM Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 10:25 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 03:56:45 PM Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> We were just setting this to the assumed default. If anything, this
>>>> belongs in the libc files if we must set it.
>>>
>>> uid_t is not a libc controlled define. Its kernel controlled (though
>>> kernel- headers)
>>
>> No, that's incorrect. The uid_t that applications see is controlled by
>> libc and decoupled from __kernel_uid_t. There is logic in glibc to
>> convert between types if necessary.
>
> uclibc passes on whatever kernel defines it to. rethinking, probably libc is
> ok for it.
And again, this is a "if we feel we must". This patch just drops it
from the files.
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-31 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 22:56 [PATCH 0/9] Re-sync and update siteinfo, round 2 Tom Rini
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 1/9] sudo: Drop sudo_cv_uid_t_len from site files Tom Rini
2011-07-30 17:25 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-30 18:39 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-30 21:03 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-30 23:41 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 2/9] tcl: Add tcl_cv_api_serial to siteinfo Tom Rini
2011-07-30 17:33 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-30 23:42 ` Tom Rini
2011-07-31 0:56 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-31 19:16 ` Tom Rini
2011-08-01 17:14 ` Tom Rini
2011-08-01 17:23 ` Khem Raj
2011-08-03 21:10 ` Tom Rini
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 3/9] Various site files: Drop monotone Tom Rini
2011-08-04 13:52 ` Richard Purdie
2011-08-04 15:08 ` Khem Raj
2011-08-04 15:14 ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-04 15:49 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 4/9] Various siteinfo files: Consolidate ac_cv_func_getaddrinfo Tom Rini
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 5/9] Various siteinfo files: Drop enca section Tom Rini
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 6/9] Various siteinfo files: Consolidate va_copy/__va_copy/va_val_copy Tom Rini
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 7/9] site/common-linux: Add ac_cv_file__dev_zero=yes Tom Rini
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 8/9] siteinfo: Add posix_getpwuid_r posix_getgrgid_r posix_getpwnam_r to uclibc Tom Rini
2011-07-27 22:56 ` [PATCH 9/9] Various siteinfo: Drop rp-pppoe variables Tom Rini
2011-08-04 14:57 ` [PATCH 0/9] Re-sync and update siteinfo, round 2 Saul Wold
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