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Re: more gcc warnings


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: more gcc warnings
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:30:21 +0000

> address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
> 
> > ls.c and stty.c use ioctl without including <sys/ioctl.h>,
> > triggering a warning about implicit declarations.  Even worse, since
> > ioctl is a varargs function, this is undefined C (luckily, it
> > compiles and links okay on cygwin).
> 
> Thanks for reporting this.  POSIX says that <stropt.h> declares ioctl,
> so let's try including that instead.

POSIX spells it <stropts.h> (not <stropt.h>), and only on platforms that
support STREAMS.  Cygwin is not one of them, and has no <stropts.h>,
so your patch will not help cygwin.  Furthermore, cygwin's <sys/ioctl.h>
is pretty wimpy - it declares JUST ioctl and 3 #defines WINDOWS_*.  So
this part of the patch needs a total rework to fix your misspelling and to
still find a solution that supports cygwin.

> 
> > id.c calls error (which ultimately gets to the printf family) with a format
> > %u for uid_t and gid_t.
> 
> %lu should be good enough; id.c uses that elsewhere.  If we run into
> hosts where uid_t and gid_t are wider than long int, then we can worry
> about it later.  (Such hosts would not conform to pre-2001 POSIX.)

This part looked fine.

--
Eric Blake






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