Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Freitag, 24. September 2004 11:06 schrieb Magnus Hagander: > > > (Btw., the Windows port defines pid_t as unsigned long; > > > that's surely wrong.) > > > > In what way is that wrong? A PID on Windows is a DWORD, which is an > > unsigned long. Or am I missing something (probably..)? > > The mingw header files define pid_t as int, so we shouldn't redefine it in the > first place. The rest of the POSIX world also assumes that pid_t is signed, > so you might break a bunch of interfaces if it's not. Note that this is > independent of the fact that the actual process identifiers are all positive, > both on Windows and on Unix systems. > > (Tertiary note: Never #define one type to another, always use typedef.)
I have fixed the Win32 type defines and removed the pid_t because as you mentioned it was not needed. We only have these left and converted to typedef: typedef int uid_t; typedef int gid_t; typedef long key_t; -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]