Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:09:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: leclercn@videotron.ca Cc: grog@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dev_t size mismatch kernel / userland Message-ID: <200103240509.f2O59L900618@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:05:18 EST." <3ABC1CFE.8070000@videotron.ca>
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> Already tried vinum, works fine after modification of dev_t to
> u_int64_t. I'll change it to uintptr_t tough (cleaner). Hope this gets
> fixed!
This is wrong. In the kernel or in a module, dev_t is an opaque type.
In userspace, you use udev_t, not dev_t.
It sounds like vinum is failing to perform the required conversions when
exchanging a dev_t with userland, and the correct fix is going to be to
add these.
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