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From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] define mt_fileno and mt_fileno struct mtget members as mt_blkno
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 07:42:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190607054214.GA7177@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190607053102.GP1506@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

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.

> Rich

Kind regards,
Petr

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/posix_types.h#L21
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h#L45


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-07  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-07  5:14 [PATCH 1/2] define daddr_t type Petr Vorel
2019-06-07  5:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] define mt_fileno and mt_fileno struct mtget members as mt_blkno Petr Vorel
2019-06-07  5:31   ` Rich Felker
2019-06-07  5:42     ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2019-06-07  5:50       ` Rich Felker
2019-06-07  5:58         ` Petr Vorel
2019-06-07  6:01           ` Rich Felker
2019-06-07  5:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] define daddr_t type Rich Felker
2019-06-07  5:53   ` Petr Vorel
2019-06-07  5:58     ` Rich Felker
2019-06-07  6:06       ` Petr Vorel
2019-06-07  6:18         ` Rich Felker
2019-06-07  6:28           ` Petr Vorel
2019-06-07  7:22             ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-07  7:48               ` Petr Vorel
2019-06-07  9:21                 ` Petr Vorel
2019-06-07 12:52       ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-06-07 15:25         ` Rich Felker
2019-06-10 20:30           ` Rich Felker
2019-06-07 20:57         ` Petr Vorel

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