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DateTue, 27 Jan 1998 07:11:06 -0500 (EST)
From"Steven N. Hirsch" <>
SubjectRe: losetup and dev_t

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> People complained that losetup dumps core when compiled with glibc,
> and indeed it does.  I put a new mount-2.7h.tar.gz at ftp.win.tue.nl.
> 
> The reason was that a struct loop_info as returned by the kernel
> has a different size from what one gets when it is compiled under glibc:
> the kernel makes dev_t an unsigned short, while glibc makes it long long.

Another victim.  I battled with this divergence while getting the knfsd
utilities working on my Alpha <g>.

Steve



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