Re: Alpine: strscpy.c:25:1: error: unknown type name 'ssize_t'; did you mean 'size_t'?

[Emanuele Torre]

On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 04:56:16PM -0700, Tianon Gravi wrote:
> I'm getting the following error when building the latest "devel"
> (23935dbe8513437e69ca14d6b0890067dddceba3) on Alpine Linux 3.17:

Techincally  ssize_t  is not part of standard C, and, according to
POSIX, it should be defined in <unistd.h> that that file is not
including.
Does this patch solve your problem?

 emanuele6
---
 lib/sh/strscpy.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/sh/strscpy.c b/lib/sh/strscpy.c
index 7a948ebe..e2679e95 100644
--- a/lib/sh/strscpy.c
+++ b/lib/sh/strscpy.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 
 #include <bashansi.h>
 
+#include <unistd.h>
+
 ssize_t
 strscpy (char *d, const char *s, size_t len)
 {