From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Apr 7 19:48:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR001.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AFC37B43F for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 19:48:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nospam@videotron.ca) Received: from neutrino.quantum.net ([24.201.45.238]) by VL-MS-MR001.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GBGD5205.H93; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:48:38 -0400 Received: from videotron.ca (client40.quantum.net [192.168.56.40]) by neutrino.quantum.net (8.12.0.Beta5/8.12.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id f382mbfa011755; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:48:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3ACFD185.9010005@videotron.ca> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 22:48:37 -0400 From: tcn Reply-To: leclercn@videotron.ca User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: leclercn@videotron.ca, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum status References: <3ACB7215.F40BE906@ele.etsmtl.ca> <20010407172348.A76422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3ACF17D1.10103@videotron.ca> <20010408101527.G76422@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I think that if it works on the alpha, it'll work on the ia64. But > I'm prepared to be proven wrong. I don't think that this will be wrong on the ia64. But I beleive that there will be a lot more mixups like this one when we will go totally from 32 to 64 bits. > > that dev_t was defined one way (the POSIX way, so unchangeable) in > userland, and another way in the kernel. I still consider this to be > a bug. This is something I don't understand. Why dev_t is something in kernel and something else in userland? POSIX defines dev_t as a uint32, shouldn't is be the same in kernel? Like you are saying, this is a bug. Normand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message