Re: [PATCH 1/2] MinGW: Use pid_t more consequently, introduce uid_t for greater compatibility

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Sebastian Schuberth
<sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 22:09, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> MinGW: Use pid_t more consequently, introduce uid_t for greater
>>> compatibility
>>
>> Why this? Compatibility with what? What's the problem with the status quo?
>
> I wanted to include Hany's Dos2Unix tool (hd2u) into msysGit. h2du
> depends on libpopt, and either of the two requires the uid_t type, I
> do not recall which. And while adding the missing uid_t, I felt it
> would be right to actually use uid_t / pid_t in the function
> prototypes.
>

Perhaps I'm missing something here... why do you need to modify the
git-sources in order to include an external tool?

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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
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