> Serguei Koubouchine <ksi@gu.net> is asking:
> >
> > Linus, can you tell us, mere mortals, will the IPC changes (new msg.h etc.)
> > be included in the mainstream kernel? I have to make a decision what to
> > patch, ac kernels or all the programs affected by those changes....
>
> (I am not Linus, but..)
>
> Sergei, Do you mean that you are compiling code in
> pre-GLIBC-2.0 environment which uses <linux/msg.h>
> in user programs ?
No.
> In GLIBC 2.0/2.1 the <linux/msg.h> header should *not* be
> included by user-space software, and thus you should not have
> any grievances about this issue. (See <sys/msg.h> )
>
> The new interface even is binary compatible with old *binaries*.
>
> What happens to the 'u_short' fields when the amount of data
> in IPC queue exceeds 'u_short' value range is that apparently
> the real value is stored there modulo 'u_short' value range..
> (e.g. 128k+10 bytes will appear to your old binaries as 10 bytes.
> Not as - for example - USHORT_MAX value.)
> Yeah, suboptimal, somewhat dangerous even.
Please tell it to e.g. KDE developers... Or to the guys who do develop
iBCS...
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