types.h

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/* The <sys/types.h> header contains important data type definitions.
 * It is considered good programming practice to use these definitions, 
 * instead of the underlying base type.  By convention, all type names end 
 * with _t.
 */

#ifndef _TYPES_H
#define _TYPES_H

#ifndef _ANSI_H
#include <ansi.h>
#endif

/* The type size_t holds all results of the sizeof operator.  At first glance,
 * it seems obvious that it should be an unsigned int, but this is not always 
 * the case. For example, MINIX-ST (68000) has 32-bit pointers and 16-bit
 * integers. When one asks for the size of a 70K struct or array, the result 
 * requires 17 bits to express, so size_t must be a long type.  The type 
 * ssize_t is the signed version of size_t.
 */
#ifndef _SIZE_T
#define _SIZE_T
typedef unsigned int size_t;
#endif

#ifndef _SSIZE_T
#define _SSIZE_T
typedef int ssize_t;
#endif

#ifndef _TIME_T
#define _TIME_T
typedef long time_t;               /* time in sec since 1 Jan 1970 0000 GMT */
#endif

#ifndef _CLOCK_T
#define _CLOCK_T
typedef long clock_t;              /* unit for system accounting */
#endif

#ifndef _SIGSET_T
#define _SIGSET_T
typedef unsigned long sigset_t;
#endif

/* Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 (not complete) */
typedef long useconds_t;        /* Time in microseconds */

/* Types used in disk, inode, etc. data structures. */
typedef short          dev_t;      /* holds (major|minor) device pair */
typedef char           gid_t;      /* group id */
typedef unsigned long  ino_t;      /* i-node number (V3 filesystem) */
typedef unsigned short mode_t;     /* file type and permissions bits */
typedef short        nlink_t;      /* number of links to a file */
typedef unsigned long  off_t;      /* offset within a file */
typedef int            pid_t;      /* process id (must be signed) */
typedef short          uid_t;      /* user id */
typedef unsigned long zone_t;      /* zone number */
typedef unsigned long block_t;     /* block number */
typedef unsigned long  bit_t;      /* bit number in a bit map */
typedef unsigned short zone1_t;    /* zone number for V1 file systems */
typedef unsigned short bitchunk_t; /* collection of bits in a bitmap */

typedef unsigned char   u8_t;      /* 8 bit type */
typedef unsigned short u16_t;      /* 16 bit type */
typedef unsigned long  u32_t;      /* 32 bit type */

typedef char            i8_t;      /* 8 bit signed type */
typedef short          i16_t;      /* 16 bit signed type */
typedef long           i32_t;      /* 32 bit signed type */

typedef struct { u32_t _[2]; } u64_t;

/* The following types are needed because MINIX uses K&R style function
 * definitions (for maximum portability).  When a short, such as dev_t, is
 * passed to a function with a K&R definition, the compiler automatically
 * promotes it to an int.  The prototype must contain an int as the parameter,
 * not a short, because an int is what an old-style function definition
 * expects.  Thus using dev_t in a prototype would be incorrect.  It would be
 * sufficient to just use int instead of dev_t in the prototypes, but Dev_t
 * is clearer.
 */
typedef int            Dev_t;
typedef int       _mnx_Gid_t;
typedef int          Nlink_t;
typedef int       _mnx_Uid_t;
typedef int             U8_t;
typedef unsigned long  U32_t;
typedef int             I8_t;
typedef int            I16_t;
typedef long           I32_t;

/* ANSI C makes writing down the promotion of unsigned types very messy.  When
 * sizeof(short) == sizeof(int), there is no promotion, so the type stays
 * unsigned.  When the compiler is not ANSI, there is usually no loss of
 * unsignedness, and there are usually no prototypes so the promoted type
 * doesn't matter.  The use of types like Ino_t is an attempt to use ints
 * (which are not promoted) while providing information to the reader.
 */

typedef unsigned long  Ino_t;

#if _EM_WSIZE == 2
/*typedef unsigned int      Ino_t; Ino_t is now 32 bits */
typedef unsigned int    Zone1_t;
typedef unsigned int Bitchunk_t;
typedef unsigned int      U16_t;
typedef unsigned int  _mnx_Mode_t;

#else /* _EM_WSIZE == 4, or _EM_WSIZE undefined */
/*typedef int             Ino_t; Ino_t is now 32 bits */
typedef int             Zone1_t;
typedef int          Bitchunk_t;
typedef int               U16_t;
typedef int         _mnx_Mode_t;

#endif /* _EM_WSIZE == 2, etc */
 
/* Signal handler type, e.g. SIG_IGN */
typedef void _PROTOTYPE( (*sighandler_t), (int) );

/* Compatibility with other systems */
typedef unsigned char   u_char;
typedef unsigned short  u_short;
typedef unsigned int    u_int;
typedef unsigned long   u_long;
typedef char            *caddr_t;

/* Devices. */   
#define MAJOR              8    /* major device = (dev>>MAJOR) & 0377 */
#define MINOR              0    /* minor device = (dev>>MINOR) & 0377 */

#ifndef minor
#define minor(dev)      (((dev) >> MINOR) & 0xff)
#endif

#ifndef major
#define major(dev)      (((dev) >> MAJOR) & 0xff)
#endif

#ifndef makedev
#define makedev(major, minor)   \
                        ((dev_t) (((major) << MAJOR) | ((minor) << MINOR)))
#endif

#endif /* _TYPES_H */

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