Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, TRIVIAL] Fix argument of BLKGETSIZE64 | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:47:08 +0100 |
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peter@chubb.wattle.id.au said: > This issue is that when I try to use the BLKGETSZ64 ioctl from a user > space program, the version of linux/fs.h shipped with glibc-2.2.5 > contains a u64 type.
> You could argue that this is a glibc bug.
I do indeed. I further argue that it has no business being discussed on the kernel mailing list, just because the kernel happens to have a header with a similar name.
> But the way that glibc generates the include/linux headers is just > to copy them from some kernel tree or other, with a little mangling > on the side.
This errant behaviour would appear to be the cause of the bug you've observed. Glibc should be providing its own header files.
-- dwmw2
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