From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Apr 7 17:45:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B270037B423 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:45:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 66A136ACB9; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 10:15:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 10:15:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: leclercn@videotron.ca Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum status Message-ID: <20010408101527.G76422@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3ACB7215.F40BE906@ele.etsmtl.ca> <20010407172348.A76422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3ACF17D1.10103@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ACF17D1.10103@videotron.ca>; from nospam@videotron.ca on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:36:17AM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 7 April 2001 at 9:36:17 -0400, tcn wrote: >> Try this temporary fix. It works fine on the i386; is it OK on alpha? > > Yep, this works fine. Good, I'll commit it. >> Before you say "that should be sizeof(udev_t)", note that udev_t is >> defined differently in userland (another thing we need to look at, I >> suppose). > > I just can't image all the problems that will arise when ia64 will be > out. There is a lot of 64bits unclean code out there. I think that if it works on the alpha, it'll work on the ia64. But I'm prepared to be proven wrong. > I think it is an error to keep size of int 32 bits for 64 bits > machine. Anyways, this is another story. Indeed, and it has nothing to do with the problem at hand, which was that dev_t was defined one way (the POSIX way, so unchangeable) in userland, and another way in the kernel. I still consider this to be a bug. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message