Re: sysv ipc msg functions

[Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@timesys.com>]

sjhill@realitydiluted.com wrote:

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> > I needed this glibc patch to get the sysv ipc msgctl functions to work 
> > correctly. This looks a bit hackish to me, so I wanted to run it past 
> > everybody here before filing it with glibc.
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> Perhaps is ignorance on my part, but I thought the compiler would
> handle the endianness with regards to the structure members. Did
> you have problems with big and little endian such that you had to
> do all of the ugly #ifdef'ing? 
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yes. Take a look at the kernel structure it is mapping to.

in
asm-mips/msgbuf.h

struct msqid64_ds

Greg Weeks