On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:56:05PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > There is probably some obscure reason having to do with mig stubs in the > kernel why those ctype declarations are there. At any rate, I'm > disinclined to fiddle with the .defs files.
Ah, this is indeed true. A simple test shows that this is not straightforward at all. For example, mig does automatically convert mach_port_t into ipc_port_t for a KernelServer in some interfaces, and something related to it (or even something else!) blew my naive attempt at changing the ctype (and even my more sophisticated attempt involving cservertype and cusertype)... might be that a lot of conditionals could rectify this, but as I am not enthusiastic about changing those files either, I guess I have to drop that idea. (Although it is still interesting to know more about this, and to understand why it is done that way). I stipulate this was done for simplicity, rather than to imply that the view of all users on all these ports should be mach_port_t (although the original Mach docs all use mach_port_t everywhere). The devil is in the details... Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
