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SubjectRe: Knfsd filehandles on 64-bit CPUS
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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.

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electrical and computer engineering
carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)



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