From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 1 23:30:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210913E6D for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14887; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:28:19 -0800 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:28:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Seigo Tanimura Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-specific extension of struct mtget breaks dump(8) from Solaris In-Reply-To: <14487.55497.261038.68187Y@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > rmt(8) returns the result of MTIOCGET filled into struct mtget in > response to the 'S' command, issued by dump(8) of some certain OSs > including Solaris. (FreeBSD's one seems to not issue the 'S' command) > Due to the extention made to struct mtget in FreeBSD, remote dump > from, eg Solaris to FreeBSD fails to establish rmt connection. > > Maybe we would have to provide something like struct mtget_org for > compatibility with other OSs. Also, if we were to issue 'S' in our > dump(8), some command extention may be required. (any plans?) > > Any comments? Yes. This is definitely an issue. Didn't this come up before and was a PR filed that I somehow forgot to own? After all, I probably broke things. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message