Re: [libvirt] Request to mailing list libvir-list rejected
On 03/12/2010 09:13 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Matthias probably already hit it on the head - gnulib can
guarantee that
> uid_t is defined in spite of mingw not providing it, but I haven't
> personally checked whether we are using this aspect of gnulib yet, and I
> will defer to see Matthias' patches.
>
Well, I looked at gnulib, but I can't find where or how it guarantees
uid_t and gid_t. But just having uid_t and gid_t defines doesn't help
that much if the related functions like chown are missing.
Gnulib also provides a replacement chown for mingw (yes, the replacement
always fails with ENOSYS, but at least it doesn't cause link failures).
I ended up just adding typedef unsigned int uid_t.
You can get that for free by using the gnulib chown replacement, or by
using AC_REQUIRE([AC_TYPE_UID_T]) in configure.ac.
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Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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