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Author	vstinner
Recipients	ajaksu2, brian.curtin, christian.heimes, ezio.melotti, hynek, larry, loewis, ned.deily, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren, sandro.tosi, serhiy.storchaka, sjoerd, tim.golden, tzimmo, vstinner
Date	2012-11-18.00:12:16
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Message-id	<1353197536.55.0.218524740644.issue2005@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> On some OSes and combination of 64bit typess and 32bit long > it's an invalid assumption. Can you give an example of OS where pid_t, gid_t or uid_t type are longer than the long type? (If I remember correctly, the "identifier" of a Windows process is an addresse, so it has a size of sizeof(void*), whereas long can be smaller on 64 bit Windows. But this issue looks to be specific to UNIX.)

> On some OSes and combination of 64bit typess and 32bit long
> it's an invalid assumption.

Can you give an example of OS where pid_t, gid_t or uid_t type are longer than the long type?

(If I remember correctly, the "identifier" of a Windows process is an addresse, so it has a size of sizeof(void*), whereas long can be smaller on 64 bit Windows. But this issue looks to be specific to UNIX.)

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