Re: a question regarding <sys/shm.h>

Peter Jeremy wrote:
Whilst I agree that the Linux defn is the more sensible one, System V
IPC and common sense are not commonly found together. Tradionally the
definition was "int". It appears that the definition changed from
"int" to "size_t" in issue 5 of the Open Group base definition but
FreeBSD has not caught up with this.

I'm not sure what plans there are to change this. You could try
putting together a patch to address this and submitting it as a PR
(this means addressing all references to shm_segsz in the base
system, not just <sys/shm.h>).

First of all, thanks for the quick response. At the very least this sheds some light onto the history and how this situation likely came to pass. I'll see if i can put together a patch during the next week or so that would bring our definitions regarding System V IPC in synch, i'll also try to see if i can find additional occurances of similar discrepancies so these could be fixed in a single run.

Any additional sugestions/objections are always greatly appreciated.

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Pascal Hofstee
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