[OE-core] [PATCH 1/9] sudo: Drop sudo_cv_uid_t_len from site files

Tom Rini tom_rini at mentor.com
Sat Jul 30 23:41:57 UTC 2011


On 07/30/2011 02:03 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Saturday, July 30, 2011 07:39:47 PM Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 10:25 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 03:56:45 PM Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> We were just setting this to the assumed default.  If anything, this
>>>> belongs in the libc files if we must set it.
>>>
>>> uid_t is not a libc controlled define. Its kernel controlled (though
>>> kernel- headers)
>>
>> No, that's incorrect.  The uid_t that applications see is controlled by
>> libc and decoupled from __kernel_uid_t.  There is logic in glibc to
>> convert between types if necessary.
> 
> uclibc passes on whatever kernel defines it to. rethinking, probably libc is 
> ok for it.

And again, this is a "if we feel we must".  This patch just drops it
from the files.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation




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