Bug#91311: semid_ds conflicts with SUSv2

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:16:37 +0000,
Mark Brown wrote:
> > > but bits/sem.h defines struct semid_ds such that sem_nsems is an
> > > unsigned long.  I can't see any reference to this in the changelog
> 
> > Does this bug cause some problems?  Some architecture on linux defines
> > sem_nsems as unsigned long int.
> 
> It causes problems for things like TenDRA that try to use standards
> pedantry to their own ends - I've got a workaround in the TenDRA package
> because of this.

So, what is the problem?  TenDRA warns something?  I rebuild TenDRA
without any your debian patches, but the result of my build is not
related any semid_ds issue.

Repeatedly, some architecture defined it as unsigned long.
sizeof(unsigned long) > sizeof(unsigned short).
If we change it to unsigned short, then the data may be lost.

Regards,
-- gotom