From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 9 1: 7:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.199.247]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2967043E8 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (tanimura@localhost.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W-rina.r-0.1-11.01.2000) with ESMTP id PAA23042; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:52:16 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:52:15 +0900 Message-ID: <14497.3743.504303.68187Y@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> From: Seigo Tanimura To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/14946: rmt - remote magtape protocol In-Reply-To: In your message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:43:56 -0800 (PST)" References: Cc: Seigo Tanimura User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.0.3 (Notorious) SEMI/1.13.4 (Terai) FLIM/1.12.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Y=FEzaki?=) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 8) (Bryce Canyon) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Digital Library Research Division, Information Techinology Centre, The University of Tokyo MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.4 - "Terai") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:43:56 -0800 (PST), Matthew Jacob said: Matthew> There is no need to change dump or restore because they don't use rmtstatus at Matthew> all right now. The reason why the above is fine is that for version 0 RMT Matthew> protocol, the actual contents of the status structure must be undefined Matthew> (they're binary, after all), so as long as the size is acceptable, it must in Matthew> fact be 'good' status. For the sake of sanity, would it still not be good to respect the size of bytes returned in response to an S command in rmtstatus()? -- Seigo Tanimura To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message