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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 09:50:42 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sys/types.h rev. 1.33 breaks ps etc. on alpha 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905170950150.509-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <2760.926926268@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 
> In message <XFMail.990516133947.jdp@polstra.com>, John Polstra writes:
> >Revision 1.33 of src/sys/types.h, which changed dev_t to a void * in
> >the kernel, breaks ps and a bunch of other things on the alpha.
> >Since dev_t now has a different size in the kernel than in userland,
> >ps and friends get a "proc size mismatch".
> 
> Uhm...  Ahh...
> 
> change
> 
> 	#define udev_t dev_t
> 
> to
> 
> 	typedef void            *dev_t;
> 
> and tell me how much that breaks...

If we define udev_t as a uintptr_t then they will both be the same size.

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