Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Knfsd filehandles on 64-bit CPUS | Date | Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:29:42 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <35B89367.99A0A2BA@star.net>, Bill Hawes writes: +----- | Steven N. Hirsch wrote: | > > Can someone confirm whether there's still a problem with knfsd | > > filehandles on 64-bit CPUs? Alan still lists it as a problem on his web | > > page, and I don't recall seeing any patches go by. | > | > I must lead a charmed life, but aside from a few log complaints about "RPC | > failure code 35.." things are working just fine. | | Actually, the "charm" is that alpha defines ino_t to be 32-bits in | posix_types.h. I don't know whether this is correct or not, as some | other 64-bit archs have ino_t as 64 bits, and I would think that posix | should say one way or the other what the size is. +--->8
ino_t is a kernel type, so POSIX pretty much keeps its mitts off. I consider it de-facto undefined by the fact that some POSIX-compliant systems use 16-bit and others 32-bit.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)
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