Manfred:
> If you want to access values > 65535 from your app you have 2 options:
>
> 1) use the new msqid64_ds structure. You must pass IPC_64 to the msgctl
> call. This is the only option if you need correct 32-bit uids.
glibc 2.2 will support this natively without needing any changes to your
application (besides a recompile). struct msqid_ds in the glibc 2.2
headers corresponds to struct msqid64_ds in the kernel.
It would be a bad thing to require people to change their source code in
order to build against the improved sysvipc interface :)
(glibc 2.2 also handles the case of a non 2.4 kernel properly, by
detecting the lack of IPC_64 support and emulating it in software-- Jakub
Jelinek wrote this compatibility code because I was too lazy/didn't need
it myself)
-Chris Wing
wingc@engin.umich.edu
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