Re: 2.1.131-ac5 - I2O is great to have but does not build...

Serguei Koubouchine (ksi@gu.net)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:03:22 +0200 (EET)


On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > :-)) Who is to patch iBCS ? Will it be developers or have I to do it myself?
>
> Why not make it easier for the developers ;)
>
> > I do recall that Linus did rather officially left Alan to look after the
> > biting penguin :-))
>
> The actual changes that have gone on are fairly small. The structures
> used for the sys5 message and shm objects have been split into a seperate
> kernel and user visible object to avoid breaking binary compatibility. If
> iBCS is just wrapping the sys_ipc*() calls then you want to use
> old_msg_qbytes old_msg_cbytes instead of msg_qbytes/cbytes

It's not the end of story... One have to change some names in structures
'coz part of msgid_ds structure have moved to a separate msgid_ds_base which
is in turn included into msgid_ds...

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