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Can pid_t be a long?
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: libc-help <libc-help at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:05:22 +0200
- Subject: Can pid_t be a long?
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Are there any interfaces which would conflict with a pid_t type which is
a long? I found just one place:
signalfd_siginfo.ssi_pid is an uint32_t.
Are there any others?
To be clear, I'm not wanting to change pid_t for an existing
architecture, I want to discover if there are constraints on future
definitions of pid_t.
Florian