Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:45:54 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [RFLART] kdev_t in ioctls |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:56:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Glibc disagrees with you (bits/types.h): > > > > > > typedef __u_quad_t __dev_t; /* Type of device numbers. */ > > > > > > We'd have to use __kernel_dev_t instead which again pulls kernel > > > headers in.. > > > > Argg. That's also non-funny: > > glibc is meant to disagree. glibc provides a virtualised dev_t to user space > so that the kernel one can be expanded in future without application > breakage.
I know - still it makes Linus' suggestion not work on ~90% of the systems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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