Am 28.09.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Eric Blake: > 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?
1) No, because MinGW and Mingw-w64 use the same declaration as MS. They cannot change that, of course. Nor will MS correct this after many years, for obvious reasons. 2) We could use a wrapper qemu_getpid or #define getpid() ((pid_t)getpid()). But that would require several other code changes.
