Re: kern/50230: conflict in type declaration of 'idtype_t' from sys/types.h with POSIX sys/wait.h

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/50230; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/50230: conflict in type declaration of 'idtype_t' from
 sys/types.h with POSIX sys/wait.h
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:14:09 +0000

 On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 08:00:01AM +0000, Heiko%hexco.de@localhost wrote:
  > while the declaration according to POSIX is in sys/wait.h and has a
  > different meaning.
 
 Apparently POSIX or somebody went and invented a "waitid" call that
 uses this type. We don't have any such call.
 
 Is this something we need to have, or is it a posix_mistake?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost