Re: Bug: on recent 32-bit-kernels uid_t is 16 Bit instead of 32 Bit

> At no point in header hierarchy I found a matching include of a 
> appropriate kernel header file.

We used to include header files.
Linus sent me an email saying I should not, so I stopped.

> The static defines of i386 => uid16_t and x86_64 => uint32_t in 
> dietlibc's header file doesn't respect linux 2.6 32 bit.

The reason is that nobody has needed them yet.

Supporting 32-bit uid and gid means adding backwards compatibility
layers, which, frankly, nobody has volunteered to write so far.
The development model of dietlibc is: do not implement things because
someone might need it, only implement things someone actually needs.

What kind of embedded platform do you have that really needs 32-bit
uids?

Felix