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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.
> 
> p.
> 
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