Re: [RFC] proposed IPC changes to support 32-bit UIDs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 23:08:06 +0000 (GMT)

> I can do this, although it will mean renaming all the uses of the semid_ds
> and shmid_ds structures to something like kernel_semid_ds,
> kernel_shmid_ds, etc. (my proposed change would make semid_ds and shmid_ds
> private to the kernel, as msg_queue and shmid_kernel are now)

Call them semid64_ds etc - thats not bad is it

> #else
> /* Make libc5 happy for compiles */
> #define semid_ds old_user_semid_ds
>
> #endif /* __KERNEL__ */

Thats a posix namespace violation. You can try and go this way but it just
gets uglier and uglier. I made the mistake myself before now 8)

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