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Re: [PATCH] Fix IPC for PPC (maybe needed for mips and sparc64 too?)
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix IPC for PPC (maybe needed for mips and sparc64 too?)
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 17 Sep 2000 17:40:49 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <00091722144900.09382@enzo.bigblue.local>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
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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