Re: pg_id.c windows fix

That's not the issue. It complained because it wanted a pointer to the size.

The relevant lines in winbase.h files are:

BOOL WINAPI GetUserNameA (LPSTR,PDWORD);
#define GetUserName GetUserNameA

I am using Mingw.

cheers

andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "PG Patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] pg_id.c windows fix

>
> Can you tell me what Win32 compile environment can't handle a sizeof()
> as a function parameter?
>
> ! GetUserName(pw->pw_name, sizeof(pw->pw_name)-1);
>
> Does casting to DWORD help?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Here's a patch for pg_id.c that lets it compile cleanly and run on
Windows.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > andrew
> >
> > Index: src/bin/pg_id/pg_id.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_id/pg_id.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.22.2.1
> > diff -c -w -r1.22.2.1 pg_id.c
> > *** src/bin/pg_id/pg_id.c 7 Sep 2003 04:37:04 -0000 1.22.2.1
> > --- src/bin/pg_id/pg_id.c 4 Oct 2003 13:33:30 -0000
> > ***************
> > *** 38,43 ****
> > --- 38,44 ----
> > char pw_name[128];
> > } pass_win32;
> > struct passwd_win32 *pw = &pass_win32;
> > + DWORD pwname_size = sizeof(pass_win32.pw_name) - 1;
> >
> > pw->pw_uid = 1;
> > #endif
> > ***************
> > *** 113,119 ****
> > exit(1);
> > }
> >
> > ! GetUserName(pw->pw_name, sizeof(pw->pw_name)-1);
> > #endif
> >
> > if (!limit_user_info)
> > --- 114,120 ----
> > exit(1);
> > }
> >
> > ! GetUserName(pw->pw_name, &pwname_size);
> > #endif
> >
> > if (!limit_user_info)
>
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