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. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org