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Subject: Re: FreeBSD-specific extension of struct mtget breaks dump(8) from
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> > 
> > Yes. This is definitely an issue. Didn't this come up before and was a PR
> > filed that I somehow forgot to own? After all, I probably broke things.
> 
> I wonder if this has been broken for a long time, likely by the
> FreeBSD-specific things in struct mtget.  (They first show up in rev 1.2 of
> mtio.h, and were likely from the 386bsd days.)  It would be nice if it
> worked between systems, though.

Yes, this falls under the "plays well with others" grade.




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