Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:22:45 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: alpha tinderbox failure Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030106112126.97146B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030106104536.C24442@espresso.q9media.com>
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> These new truncated lines only make problems harder to solve.
>
> Anyway, the problem is the 5th argument to vn_extattr_get() should be an
> int *, but it's passing a size_t *. It looks like most consumers of
> vn_extattr_get() would prefer a size_t *, so maybe the interface should
> be changed.
I think the problem originated because uio_resid is 'int', but iovec's
len is size_t. I agree the right answer is to use size_t as the argument
to vn_extattr_{get,set}(). Will that cause type problems with the resid
field, however?
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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