Re: Problem with ucred.h building 7.2.1

In the only other creds failure I can remember on Linux, it was caused
by someone updating their partially system headers, but not completely.

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Niclas Gustafsson wrote:
> > Niclas Gustafsson <Niclas.Gustafsson@codesense.com> writes:
> >> I'm having some trouble compiling 7.2.1 on one of our machines,
> >> It's a linux box running SuSE 6.0, with kernel version 2.2.14.
> >> ...
> >> After searching the system I see that I do not have the ucred.h
> >> anywhere.
> >> However I find the ucred definition in /usr/include/linux/socket.h as
>
> > Yeah, we've heard a couple of prior reports to the effect that this code
> > is not sufficiently configurable.  I'm a bit confused though ---- hba.c
> > pulls in <sys/socket.h>, doesn't that include <linux/socket.h> ?  Seems
> > like it should work...
>
> Nope, It does not include linux/socket.h.
> It only includes the following:
>
> #include <features.h>
> #include <stddef.h>
> #include <socketbits.h>
>
> And noone of them includes linux/socket.h
>
> I made a rather crude insert into hba.h
>
> struct ucred {
>        unsigned int   pid;
>        unsigned int   uid;
>        unsigned int   gid;
> };
>
> And with that it passed both the compilation and regression tests.
>
> Regards,
>
> Niclas Gustafsson
>
>
>
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