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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 08:28:48 +0200
From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] define daddr_t type

Hi Rich,

...
> Per http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ustat.2.html:

>     ustat() is deprecated and has been provided only for
>     compatibility. All new programs should use statfs(2) instead.

> AFAIK we've never hit anything that needed/wanted ustat, and the
> interface has fundamental limitations that make it mostly (entirely?)
> non-useful. I'm not sure why LTP is testing it...

Thanks for info. I'll read man page properly next time :).

LTP tests what is in glibc (will test ustat() until it's removed from glibc).
I guess fix for mtio.h is still valid, I'll send a patch.

> Rich

Kind regards,
Petr

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