AREA:COMP.OS.LINUX
From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu)
Organization: Washington State University!

In article <1993Mar26.045937.28664@cc.umontreal.ca> duperval@ERE.Umontreal.CA
(Duperval Laurent) writes:
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>Hi all,
>
>This question should probably only be addressed do H.J. but...  I'm trying to
>compile tcx but I'm not getting anywhere.  The reason is that at some point in
>the program, I need to declare
>
>union wait foo;
>
>but the wait structure does not exist.  I looked through all the system
>include files and couldn't find it.  I found struct __wait which gives me what
>I need but an #ifdef linux prevents the compiler from reaching that code.  I'd
>like to know (before I start messing around with my include files): is the
>structure available somewhere else under an assumed name?  Or is it that Linux
>can't handle its use yet?  Can I just remove the #ifdef in order to access the
>structure?
>
>If the use of the wait structure is not supported, what is needed for it to be
>supported?
>
>Thanks for any information and/or enlightment you may bring me.
>

I bet you are not on the GCC channel. I have added that in libc 4.3.3,
which is still under testing. Some bugs are fixed and more features
are added in each testing release. But there may be new bugs introduced
by bug fixes. You have to take those risks. But overall, the testing
releases are more reliable than the official releases.


H.J.