RPCSEC_GSS type names

Donn Cave donn at u.washington.edu
Thu May 6 18:28:27 EDT 2004


On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 02:23 PM, Tom Yu wrote:
...
> Also, I'm considering defining the BSD type aliases u_int, u_long,
> etc. in rpc/types.h on platforms which lack them, so that diffs
> against rpcsrc-4.0, etc. aren't quite as annoying to read.  This does
> impinge upon the user namespace, but many OSes already define these
> aliases anyway (if not compiling with a standards-conforming
> namespace).

I have observed problems with this, when configure fails to find
u_int, but it turns up at build time because of some other include
file or preprocessor option you didn't account for.  May be worth
it anyway, just wanted to mention that.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu



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