Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: f_frsize value in struct statvfs set to 0 instead of the f_bsize value | From | Andreas Jaeger <> | Date | 24 Jul 1999 00:19:22 +0200 |
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>>>>> Zack Brown writes:
Zack> Got this today. Thought I'd pass it on... This is off-topic on linux-kernel.
Zack> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Zack> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:22:55 -0600 Zack> From: Gordon Haverland <haverlan@agric.gov.ab.ca> Zack> To: zbrown@linuxcare.com Zack> Subject: kernel traffic
Zack> Hi! Zack> I'm a LUG president in western Canada, don't get involved Zack> in kernel development. But I am involved in LPRng, a print Zack> spooling system. A while ago, it was pointed out that Zack> RedHat 6.0 (probably Linux in general) has a "bug" in Zack> that they set the f_frsize value in struct statvfs to Zack> 0 instead of the f_bsize value.
Zack> Anyway, as I don't know where to pass this onto, I was Zack> hoping maybe you did.
This happens in glibc and has been corrected already. The fix is in the released version of glibc 2.1.1.
Andreas
1999-05-07 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fstatvfs.c (fstatvfs): Set f_frsize to f_bsize to help some broken programs. -- Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger@aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de
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