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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com, j6t@kdbg.org,
	avarab@gmail.com, sunshine@sunshineco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 15/15] daemon: opt-out on features that require posix
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:13:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y69vl67b.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101018163134.GA6343@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:31:34 -0500")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Just to throw an idea out: you can also do something like
>
> #ifndef NO_POSIX_GOODIES
> struct credentials {
> };
> #else
> struct credentials {
> 	struct passwd *pass;
> 	gid_t gid;
> }
> #endif
>
> and pass a pointer to credentials around.

Empty structures are not standard C.  But if you only ever use a pointer
to the struct you can leave it undefined (ie. just forward-declare it).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-18 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11 21:50 [PATCH v4 00/15] daemon-win32 Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 01/15] mingw: add network-wrappers for daemon Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 22:07   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 02/15] mingw: implement syslog Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 22:11   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 22:28     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 22:37       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-13 12:36         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-13 19:23           ` Eric Sunshine
2010-10-13 21:17             ` [msysGit] " Pat Thoyts
2010-10-14  0:47               ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 03/15] compat: add inet_pton and inet_ntop prototypes Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 04/15] inet_ntop: fix a couple of old-style decls Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 05/15] mingw: use real pid Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 06/15] mingw: support waitpid with pid > 0 and WNOHANG Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 07/15] mingw: add kill emulation Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 08/15] daemon: use run-command api for async serving Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-13 22:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-14 10:18     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-17  4:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 09/15] daemon: use full buffered mode for stderr Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 10/15] Improve the mingw getaddrinfo stub to handle more use cases Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 11/15] daemon: report connection from root-process Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-13 22:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-14 10:50     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-17  4:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-17 10:18         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 12/15] mingw: import poll-emulation from gnulib Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 13/15] mingw: use " Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 14/15] daemon: use socklen_t Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-11 21:50 ` [PATCH v4 15/15] daemon: opt-out on features that require posix Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-13 23:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-14 11:02     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-15 21:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-18 12:05         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-18 16:31           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 18:13             ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-10-18 18:42               ` empty structs Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-21 21:16             ` [PATCH v4 15/15] daemon: opt-out on features that require posix Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-21 22:00               ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-21 22:03                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-21 22:04                 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-21 23:17                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-18 19:26           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-21 20:37   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-21 20:39     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-21 20:54       ` Erik Faye-Lund

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