a question regarding <sys/shm.h>

[Fabian Keil]

Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 
> > Pascal Hofstee <caelian at gmail.com> writes:
> >> Any additional sugestions/objections are always greatly appreciated.
> >
> > On 32-bit platforms (i386, powerpc), int is a 32-bit signed integer while 
> > size_t is a 32-bit unsigned integer.
> >
> > On 64-bit platforms (amd64, sparc64 etc), int is a 32-bit signed integer 
> > while size_t is a 64-bit unsigned integer.
> >
> > In both cases, changing this structure member from int to size_t will break 
> > the ABI.
> >
> > This doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, just that it should be done with 
> > care.
> 
> If we do decide to go ahead with the ABI change, there are a number of other 
> things that should be done simultaneously, such as changing the uid and gid 
> fields to uid_t and gid_t.

struct tm's members could be changed as well.

Quoting a response I got from Juliusz Chroboczek
(the author of Polipo) after reporting a compiler
warning:

|By the way, IEEE 1003.1-2003 says that tv_sec should be a time_t,
|hence by making it a long, FreeBSD and NetBSD are violating the POSIX
|standard.  Could you please file a bug report with them?

I didn't find any claims about FreeBSD being IEEE 1003.1-2003
compliant and therefore didn't consider it a bug, but given that
the topic is *_t changes and time_t hasn't come up yet,
I'd like to mention it anyway.

Fabian
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