Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:10:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ia64 tinderbox failure Message-ID: <200212291810.gBTIACHH039446@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20021229004907.C98334@espresso.q9media.com> <20021229184137.C40787-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20021229112038.D98334@espresso.q9media.com>
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:> is never a problem with its bounds). Other users of getbsize() in the
:> src tree but perhaps not ones in ports have been broken to match the
:> interface breakage. The usual breakage is to cast the size_t to int
:> without checking bounds.
:
:Agreed. Not a single consumer actually wants a size_t and not all base
:system uses have been "fixed" for the new interface (ls(1) for instance).
:I'd like to see the interface restored and merged into RELENG_5_0 before
:we introduce this mistake on the world.
:
:Best regards,
:Mike Barcroft
Agreed. It really should be an int * like it used to be. But it's
up to Mark Murray to fix it since it was his commit that changed it
to a size_t in the first place.
-Matt
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