From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, TRIVIAL] Fix argument of BLKGETSIZE64
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:47:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17385.1023889628@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15623.11051.890868.154587@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
peter@chubb.wattle.id.au said:
> This issue is that when I try to use the BLKGETSZ64 ioctl from a user
> space program, the version of linux/fs.h shipped with glibc-2.2.5
> contains a u64 type.
> You could argue that this is a glibc bug.
I do indeed. I further argue that it has no business being discussed on the
kernel mailing list, just because the kernel happens to have a header with
a similar name.
> But the way that glibc generates the include/linux headers is just
> to copy them from some kernel tree or other, with a little mangling
> on the side.
This errant behaviour would appear to be the cause of the bug you've
observed. Glibc should be providing its own header files.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-12 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-12 5:02 [PATCH, TRIVIAL] Fix argument of BLKGETSIZE64 Peter Chubb
2002-06-12 5:41 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-12 11:06 ` Peter Chubb
2002-06-12 13:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-12 13:47 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-06-12 20:19 ` Peter Chubb
2002-06-12 20:45 ` David Woodhouse
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