Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:51:06 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Porting Greg Lehey's rawio.c from FreeBSD to Linux... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904302049430.9878-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19990501095604.W80561@freebie.lemis.com>
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> I don't really understand why you ask a FreeBSD group about it; it's a
> Linux issue. FWIW, about the only area where you're liable to run
> into difficulties is in the disk label handling round line 300, which
> is pretty peripheral to the function: it's just there as one way of
> finding out the size of the partition. You'll need in-depth Linux
> information to even find out if Linux has an equivalent function.
Open the device, and
if (ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, (caddr_t) &seeklim) < 0) {
see <linux/fs.h>
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