On 09/28/2015 02:26 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:

>> Can you explain why osdep.h's
>>
>>     #define FMT_pid "%" PRId64
>>
>> is appropriate for Windows?
> 
> Don't blame me for any strangeness which you might find in Windows. :-)
> 
> Mingw-w64 sys/types.h defines pid_t to be either an int or an __int64.
> FMT_pid must match these definitions.
> 
> But getpid returns an int, not a pid_t...

Can we 1) file a bug against mingw for their buggy getpid(), and 2)
write a wrapper that makes getpid() always return pid_t in the meantime?

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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