Unix types in IDL code?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:20 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Right now I'm looking at converting the Samba3
> parse_share_modes stuff to becoming IDL-generated. In the
> current struct share_mode we have things like uid_t, gid_t,
> struct timeval etc.
> 
> What would be the recommended way to deal with these? I
> could certainly add corresponding support into ndr_misc.c,
> or I could use uint64's and a IDL typedef for struct
> timeval. The latter approach however makes manual
> conversions necessary as the resulting structs don't have
> the right types inside.
> 
> What should I do here?

64 bit types seems the easy option to me.  If you are going as far as
IDL, having it depending on the size of uid_t seems silly. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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