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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 11, 12:15am, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/50230: conflict in type declaration of 'idtype_t' from s

| 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?

We need to have it... I started on it, but got interrupted.

christos