Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:11:06 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | | Subject | Re: 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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