Re: mc-4.6.1 release?

[Roland Illig <roland illig gmx de>]

Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello Pavel,
>
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 18:08, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
> > `uid_t' is defined as an `unsigned long' on recent Cygwin. I see on
> > Fedore Core 2 glib it is `unsigned int'. SUSv3 has to say the
> > following:
> >
> >  "nlink_t, uid_t, gid_t, and id_t shall be integer types."
>
>
> Seems like you should take up the issue with the Cygwin developers then.
> I don't know how authoritative the above statement is, but the easiest
> way to find out is probably to put it to the Cygwin developers to
> comment on.

I don't think the issue is that important in this case. A conversion to 
an unsigned long should be enough in all practical cases. An unsigned 
long has at least 32 bits, so the only case in which there could be name 
clashes are when two distinct users on a system dont have a username and 
when their (uid & 0xffffffff) are the same.

Roland