gamin broken on amd64

Sean McNeil sean at mcneil.com
Sat Jul 16 22:04:22 GMT 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 03:41 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 02:28 -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > msg credentials are difficult to get right in a portable fashion.  I'm
> > not so certain that FreeBSD is doing things right here, but I have a
> > patch to resolve the issue.
> > 
> 
> I've committed an update to dbus which I think has a portable version of
> cmsgcred.  Please take a look at
> devel/dbus/files/patch-dbus_dbus-sysdeps.c, and see if that will work
> for amd64.  If so, I will port the fix to gamin and gnomekeyring.

This looks real good.  Since nothing in struct cmsgcred requires a
better alignment than what struct cmsghdr already creates, this should
be completely portable and should work perfectly with amd64.

Cheers,
Sean




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