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Re: [PATCH] Fix IPC for PPC (maybe needed for mips and sparc64 too?)


Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:

> I finally found the reason why some X apps (namely gdm and the gtk+ tree 
> example) had problems on Linux/PPC, glibc was treating PPC as a 16bit 
> uid_t/gid_t/etc. platform, but this was never the case on PPC, we had 32bit 
> from the beginning. The attached patch fixes it. Mips and sparc64 may need 
> similar fixes.

Thanks a lot.  I changed it a bit.  Since the ipc_priv.h file is not
installed and was identical to the Alpha version we simply include the
latter.

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