Re: [PATCH] inttostr: add gidtostr and uidtostr

2013-08-11 Thread Paul Eggert
I think the worry was that there are zillions of such types (mode_t, dev_t, pid_t, etc.), too many to define a function for each. For valid gid_t and uid_t values one can use umaxtostr in practice, and there seemed to be little point to tuning for platforms where gid_t and uid_t are narrower than

Re: fpending in cygwin

2013-08-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks, I pushed the following to gnulib; does it fix your problem? --- ChangeLog| 14 ++ lib/fpending.h | 9 - m4/fpending.m4 | 23 ++- modules/fpending | 2 +- 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/Chang

[PATCH] inttostr: add gidtostr and uidtostr

2013-08-11 Thread Bernhard Voelker
I'm wondering if there's a reason why the 'inttostr' module shouldn't support the conversion from uid_t and gid_t to char*, i.e., why there are no uidtostr() and gidtostr() functions. Just in case - the attached patch would add them ... Have a nice day, Berny >From e737d10b6679b07db28d8868aa633

Re: [bug #35580] bootstrap is not portable to OpenBSD

2013-08-11 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Mike, Thank you for taking the time to try my script, and especially for the great feed back. Much appreciated! On Aug 9, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:36:42 +0700, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> >> I'd be delighted to hear your feedback if you have any succes

Re: OpenBSD: gettimeofday and sys/time.h errors

2013-08-11 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 23:18:07 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Hmm, OK, how about the following patch instead? Ok, some good progress. This fixes the "gettimeofday has not been declared" error and the "invalid conversion" errors with timeval, both with and without gnulib sys/select.h. I think that's