Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:30:17 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] incorrect use of sizeof() in ioctl definitions |
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:58:53PM +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote: > Well, I may misunderstand the measurement here. By previous comment from > Matthew Wilcox, I see "Clearly it's too late to change the ioctl > definitions...". Er, so all things like IOR_BAD and size_t are just to > keep current API untouched, while warning subsequent guys right way to > populate ioctls. :) Then the last question is: is it worthy of some > efforts to modify these APIs completely? Maybe the bee just bites > once...
Already done on i386 and some other platforms. Not on ia64 yet, I see. The bad_ioctl stuff is part of that typechecking.
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