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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 07:58:29 +0200
From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] define mt_fileno and mt_fileno struct mtget
members as mt_blkno
Hi Rich,
> > ....
> > > > +++ b/include/sys/mtio.h
> > > > @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ struct mtget {
> > > > long mt_dsreg;
> > > > long mt_gstat;
> > > > long mt_erreg;
> > > > - int mt_fileno;
> > > > - int mt_blkno;
> > > > + daddr_t mt_fileno;
> > > > + daddr_t mt_blkno;
> > ....
> > > Can you explain what problem this is supposed to fix? It definitely
> > > needs further discussion to determine what the right way is, but
> > > that's impossible without knowing the problem you're trying to solve.
> > Thanks for review. Not a problem for me actually. I've noticed, that glibc (and
> > thus uclibc-ng) and bionic follow kernel sources, which defines it long for mips
> > (and for sparc, but musl doesn't support it). Default is int [2]. Drop this
> > patch if this is not an issue.
> Well it might be a problem on some archs. I think it's worth looking
> into. We might need to add bits/mtio.h to define it appropriately for
> the arch.
I'd be for bits/mtio.h as I suppose this problem still persists on mips.
But I'm not able to verify, just follow what it's defined in
kernel/glibc/uclibc/bionic.
My main concern is to have daddr_t defined in musl.
> Rich
Kind regards,
Petr
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